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Old March 17th 17, 09:33 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
Eric Stevens
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Default OT - Macs are now being significantly targeted with malware

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:32:05 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2017-03-17 19:53:03 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

Compared with Windows the numbers are still relatively small but they
are growing fast.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/1...ware_explodes/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0...rground_sales/


https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/0...g_keychain s/

I'm

not posting these to pull someone's chain


Sure you are, and we know who that might be. ;-)

but to let Apple users know what is going on.


...er, right. With reports from "The Register" article dated "5 Nov
2015", and "1 Sept 2015" along with that Dark web tale.


I didn't notice the date. They popped up today via my Yahoo home page.
In any case, the situation can only have got worse in the intervening
year and a half.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens