

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.
