Data shows it looks close for Windows 70 million New malware samples that far exceed macOS rate 12,000 new viruses. Therefore, the number of malicious files in Windows, 5,000 times. The attackers created nearly 2 million malicious programs for Linux.

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• What is very interesting is that while the total number of Windows malware is certainly very high, its growth rate has been steadily declining since September.
• With macOS, the situation is different: here the number of viruses is relatively low, but the rate of emergence of new ones increased sharply in November and December.
• The situation with Linux is perhaps the most striking, as this operating system seems to have been completely forgotten. The rate of new malware has been and continues to be extremely low since June.

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