According to a recently published thoroughly researched mac malware 2023 report, an increase of 20% in malware is predicted on the mac during 2024..
https://objective-see.org/blog/blog_0x77.html
I’m impressed to see that the author has linked FOSS utilities to assist users in detecting unusual system behavior amoung other security utilities at the foot of the article.
(TLDR: shortcut to the utilities)
https://objective-see.org/tools.html
Nirsofer style utilities for a macOS…may be worth a bookmark.