MacPaw

I'm your host, Aaron Y. Choulis, Apple's security writer at 9to5Mac.

And I'm very excited for this episode because today joining me to talk about the state of Apple's bug bounty program and the macOS threat landscape is Patrick Wardle, Apple security researcher, author, founder of the Objective-C nonprofit, and Ksenia Jambruk, our research engineer at Moonlock, the cybersecurity wing of MacPaw.

We'll dig into whether the recent changes to Apple's bug bounty program actually made the program healthier.

Then I'll hand it to Ksenia to walk us through Moonlock's recent mid-2026 macOS threat report.