The United States and Canada on Thursday issued a rare joint cyber-alert, warning against a recent surge in extortion attacks that infect computers with viruses known as “ransomware,” which encrypt data and demand payments for…
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OS X Ransomware Caught Before Large Number of PCs Infected: Transmission
The first known ransomware attack on Apple’s Mac computers, which was discovered over the weekend, was downloaded more than 6,000 times before the threat was contained, according to a developer whose product was tainted with…