Ping.
Thank you... :)
OK, so here is the difference my friend. Ransomware in this case is different than Ransomware for MS. With MS they lock your system so that it is unusable. This is “We see what you are doing” and they threaten to share that information.
For a personal desktop user this is not really a concern. A diligent astute Linux desktop user would be able to revert their system back and rid themselves of the spyware that allowed them to get this “information”.
It is more “spyware” than it is “ransomware”. Big companies might have to worry about illegal operations or privileged information, but personal users not much at all. I would be about as concerned with this as when I get the bogus emails that claim they caught me watching porn and threaten to tell my wife. lol
When they do not even know my wife...