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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
Sure, but most of the attacks are platform-dependant, at least the nasty ones since fortunately you can only do pretty trivial things in js running on a browser...

The larger and more homogenous installed base points attackers towards windows hosts; for example it would be possible to have ransomware attack against linux too, but I am aware of no such being deployed.
JavaScript exploits can be multi-purpose and multi-platform. And it's beyond trivial.

Same BS that folks on macOS think, seems to be prevalent in Linux too. Each and every OS that connects to the Internet can be exploited.

It's a matter of when it will happen, not if it will happen.