TechRadar takes a look at antivirus software for the Mac

The bad guys’ favourite malware is currently ransomware – a type of app that locks up the victim’s computer and only unlocks it if a ransom is paid. And as some victims have discovered, it turns out that you just can’t trust criminals: people who did pay up found that they were asked to pay again, or that their card details were copied and used.

Ransomware made it to the Mac in 2016, when the KeRanger trojan was discovered in the Transmission BitTorrent client. It’s believed that the infection happened through compromising the Transmission website and replacing the real DMG download with an infected one. Some 7,000 Macs are believed to have been infected.

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