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Title: Mac ransomware is nothing to worry about—for now Post by: HCK on November 12, 2015, 03:00:18 am Mac ransomware is nothing to worry about—for now
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Apple computers haven’t been impacted by ransomware, a pervasive and insidious class of malware that encrypts files on a computer in exchange for a ransom.</p><p>That’s not because Apple’s operating system is any more secure than Windows; it’s more that malware writers haven’t gotten around to writing ransomware for OS X since infecting Windows machines has been so profitable.</p><p>However, a Brazilian security researcher, Rafael Salema Marques (https://twitter.com/pegabizu/), decided to show (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mabouia-born-first-mac-osx-ransomware-poc-rafael-salema-marques) how easy it would be for malware writers to target OS X in a polished experiment that took him a couple of days.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3003987/business-security/ransomware-for-mac-is-nothing-to-worry-about-for-now.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Mac ransomware is nothing to worry about—for now (http://www.macworld.com/article/3003987/business-security/ransomware-for-mac-is-nothing-to-worry-about-for-now.html#tk.rss_all) |