An iCloud scam that may be worse than ransomware

Published March 16th, 2016 at 2:54 PM EDT , modified March 16th, 2016 at 2:54 PM EDT

Ransomware – malicious software that encrypts your files and then demands payment to unlock them – has become a major scourge of the Windows world.

Mac users just had their first brush with such threats last week, with the appearance of the KeRanger ransomware. However, shortly before KeRanger, I encountered a ransomware event in the Mac world far worse than anything seen for Windows.

This hack seems to have turned an iMac into an expensive paperweight.

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Tags: iCloud, ransomware