We certainly can't say that malware doesn't exist for macOS, but if it is true that they are not extended like the ones we see in other operating systems. We always repeat that this is due to several factors and the main one is the installation of third-party applications or tools.
If you are one of the users who always install official applications, you have nothing to fear in this regard, but on the contrary from time to time you make "purchases" from unofficial or similar sites It is possible that your computer could be susceptible to one of these malware infections.
SynAck security researcher Patrick Wardl has detected a new malware that directly affects the cameras of our Macs allowing the activation of the webcam remotely. With this and as indicated on the 9to5Mac website, hackers would get take photos, take screenshots and they would even be able to know the keys that we are pressing.
It looks like this hardware is a Fruitfly variant and It is not new to macOS since it has been roaming various domains on the network for quite some time, especially in the United States, which is where the greatest number of infected users have been detected. Now with the news in the hands of Apple itself and with these addresses already "capped", it is expected that more users will not be infected.
After analyzing the new variant of this malware, Wardle was able to decrypt several backup domains that were encoded in the malicious software. To his surprise, the affected domains were kept available. Within two days of registering one of the addresses, about 400 Macs were infected when connecting to the server, most of them located in the United States. Although Wardle did nothing more than look at the address, user names and IP of the Mac computers that connected to his server, which had the ability to use malicious software to spy on users who were infected without knowing it.
This teaches us several things, and that is that the malware that we find distributed over the network is as bad for Mac users as it is on other platforms and only with common sense can we avoid being infected. Logically there is also the "bad luck" factor but these malware infections are usually due to not being attentive when we access some websites or download something that we should not. On the other hand, the only thing that is achieved is breaking the user's privacy, but the Mac will continue to work without any problem.