A relatively new ransomware operation named Interlock attacks organizations worldwide, taking the unusual approach of creating an encryptor to target FreeBSD servers.
Launched at the end of September 2024, Interlock has since claimed attacks on six organizations, publishing stolen data on their data leak site after a ransom was not paid. One of the victims is Wayne County, Michigan, which suffered a cyberattack at the beginning of October.
Very hard to stop this kind of ransomware. It spreads horizontally very quickly. I must say, this one may be a variety of activismware to expose nastiness in corps. FreeBSD attacks are something new!! These could spread to MacOS, too.
MacOS is one of the most spied and full of backdoor operating systems so they don't have to waste resources and time on it 🤣
Smart tools like this is meant to be used for real badass complex systems.
Then, they have modified the MacOS very far away from BSD. I recall SystemIV and SystemV as well as Solaris, BSD, AIX and the very beginnings of Linux. They were not all interoperatalbe, each with slightly different commands. You had to be careful of which system you were operating with the commands you used.
Unfortunately, this was slightly 🤏 before my time. I was born back then but still a child which got his PC too late when I was 14 😢
Sorry, this was back in the mid to late ‘90s.