Apple has shut down the first fully-functional Mac OS X ransomware (opens in new tab)

>Windows has this thing called Create Remote Thread. Basically, the semantics of Create Remote Thread are: You’re a process, I’m a different process. I call you and say “Hey! I have this bit of code. I’d really like it if you’d run this.” You’d say, “Sure,” because you’re a Windows process– you’re all hippie-like and free love. Windows processes, by the way, are insanely promiscuous. So! We would call a bunch of processes, hand them all a gob of code, and they would all run it.

I...wait, what? Did Windows actually used to be that bad?

Someone compromised their main web server where the binaries are hosted and put up a malicious binary.

It's not spin, it's someone saying "I told you so."

The claim was always that the Mac was as prone to viruses as Windows but so few people owned Macs that no one bothered writing Mac viruses.

It's all endlessly debatable, of course, but that's what the author is referring to.

It is a security breach but in the past most malware has been targeting windows because of the larger financial upside due to popularity. As OS X gets more popular expect more attempts like this.

No. They revoked that single developer's certificate. I think you're referring to an Apple certificate that simply expired and invalidated many App Store signatures.