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Computers & Hardware => Apple Related => Topic started by: tickmike on March 07, 2016, 09:57:48 PM

Title: Not Good.
Post by: tickmike on March 07, 2016, 09:57:48 PM

Apple Macs hit by ransomware 'for first time'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35744416

Title: Re: Not Good.
Post by: sevenlayermuddle on March 09, 2016, 11:18:59 PM

No, not good.  :(

Worth noting though that the malware wasn't in Apple's software, it was in an open source package, signed with an Apple certificate.

Apple were able to quickly revoke that certificate thus limiting the spread of damage. 

http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2016/03/new-os-x-ransomware-keranger-infected-transmission-bittorrent-client-installer/

Personally I continue to feel far, far, safer entrusting my desktop PC to OS X than to any alternative.