Ransomware is a rampant plague and a cyber-security nightmare that won’t go away anytime soon. Ransomware is also an 18 million dollar a year business, according to 2015 reports with an average paid ransom between $300-$600.

What are the chances of a device running iOS or Android to be infected by malware? While 5-6 years ago those odds were slim and insignificant to the average user, now mobile devices are just as much at risk to be the target of hacking, as any Windows laptop, or Apple MacBook.

Apple has announced an invitation-only program similar to Microsoft’s Bug Bounty, in the wake of concerns in regard to evidence of ransomware specifically designed for Macs, which has made it as far as the Mac App store

This week, Apple has issued patches to what has been described as an extremely high security threat, delivered via multimedia text message, containing image files in TIFF format. TIFF is less common than Jpeg or GIF, as it is typically used to store high-resolution images for print and other production purposes.