Meet Moonlock: HackerNoon Company of the Week

Hey Hackers!

Welcome to another addition to our Company of the Week feature! Every week, we share an awesome tech brand from our tech company database, making their evergreen mark on the internet. This unique HackerNoon database ranks S&P 500 companies and top startups of the year alike.

This week, we’re proud to shine a spotlight on Moonlock, a cybersecurity division that protects you every time you use your everyday devices. Specifically made for Mac, Moonlock is on a quest to make the Apple ecosystem as safe as possible by stopping cyber threats from ever reaching you.

Meet Moonlock: #FunFact

Moonlock was made by MacPaw, a company with a long history of creating amazing apps, first starting with CleanMyMac in 2008. Since then, MacPaw hasn’t taken its foot off the gas. On their website, they rightfully boast:

Over the years, we’ve made other successful apps. You may have heard of them — after all, there’s a MacPaw app on every 5th Mac in the world.

And its success and its long-standing history eventually led MacPaw to Moonlock. With that in mind, let’s learn more about Moonlock itself.

Although it’s made up of a small team, they have a combined 47 years of experience in cybersecurity together. Plus, the team includes a white-hat hacker and a former cybercrime investigator.

So, it’s no wonder Moonlock is as efficient as it is and that they were able to create the Moonlock Engine, the tech behind Malware Remove. Moonlock Engine quickly scans your devices, detects malware, and then gets rid of it. It’s just that simple.

Here are 3 more important things you need to know about Moonlock Engine, taken straight from the horse’s mouth (or in this case, its website):

1. Moonlock Engine inspects mail attachments, DMG and ZIP archives, USB drives, browser extensions, and launchers to ensure that no malware slips through the cracks.

   
   

2. Moonlock Engine has a lightning-fast scan: now 2x faster on M1-powered Macs and 1.5x faster on Intel-based computers.

   
   

3. Moonlock Engine is independently verified by AV-TEST and was able to detect 93.3% of malicious samples during a private test.

Moonlock 🤝HackerNoon

Moonlock has now turned its sights on HackerNoon and has partnered with us for our business blogging program. So far, Moonlock’s stories have garnered over 9.5k reads and counting!

Check them out to learn more about how you can stay safe on the internet:

• Crypto Tool or Data Thief? How Meme-Token-Hunter-Bot and Its Clones Steal from macOS Users
• Here’s How We Made a Real-time Phishing Website Detector for MacOS
• Tracking Atomic Stealer on macOS: Sophisticated Malware Replacing LedgerLive App

That’s it for this week!

Until next time,

The HackerNoon team