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Still, for ransomware actors looking to generate as much revenue as possible, Macs are a potentially appealing untilled field.

Or it may not, if their tests aren’t promising.” “The viability may improve in the future. “The LockBit encryptor doesn’t look particularly viable in its current form, but I’m definitely going to be keeping an eye on it,” says Thomas Reed, director of Mac and mobile platforms at the antivirus maker Malwarebytes. As law enforcement worldwide pushes to counter attacks, and victims increasingly have input and resources available to avoid paying, ransomware gangs are getting more desperate for new or refined strategies that will help them get paid. “However, well-funded ransomware groups will continue to evolve their malicious creations.”ĭeveloping Mac ransomware may not be the highest priority on every attacker's to-do list, but the field is shifting. “In some sense, Apple is ahead of the threat, as recent versions of macOS ship with a myriad of built-in security mechanisms aimed to directly thwart, or at least reduce the impact of, ransomware attacks,” Wardle says.

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