MacWorld: Mac ransomware is nothing to worry about -- for now

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Writing ransomware is easy, but getting it installed on Macs would be harder

By Jeremy Kirk
Nov 11, 2015

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.

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.

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