Apple Shuts Down First Viable Ransomware for Mac OS X
Mac owners have long touted the impermeability to online threats as one reason for choosing Apple over Microsoft. However, even the seemingly airtight Mac OS X operating system is vulnerable to specifically-crafted, sophisticated ransomware that is designed to get past Apple’s security parameters. That happened last week, when Palo Alto researchers found that ransomware targeted at the Mac OS X operating system, called KeRanger, was fully operational and functional for the first time ever. Apple immediately took action, revoking the abused security certificate that the KeRanger attackers used and updating it’s built-in anti-malware system, XProtect, with a new signature in …
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