On Monday I wrote about ransomware and how more and more instances of it have been surfacing over the past few years. Yesterday, this popped up on my radar. Scammers were exploiting a bug in IOS (iPhone and presumably iPad) Safari to make it appear as if a user’s device had been hijacked, and that they had to pay to get access back. The ransomware was installed on some porn sites.

In case you’re not already familiar with it, “ransomware” is software that installs itself on your computer, scrambles your files so you can’t use them anymore, and then holds them ransom until you send money to the ransomer. (Via bitcoin, so (s)he cannot be identified.) Depending on who “sent” the software, sending the money may not get control of your computer back for you; some of the attackers are just scammers and don’t bother.