Scamsters target Mac owners because Apple’s operating system has been relatively untouched by malware. Mac owners who browse to “lower-quality websites” may encounter attack code or scripts that hijack the browser to display scary, but bogus, warnings that their machine is at risk. The scammer uses a URL almost identical to the one Apple offers for legitimate technical support-to-end user screen sharing, and provides links to remote access tools the scammer will use to infiltrate the Mac. Mac users just aren’t as aware of the threat out there as are Windows users, a security researcher says.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2996615/tech-support-scammers-put-mac-owners-in-crosshairs.html