Hackers managed to infect the first Apple computers – News portal of the financial markets, investment and stock trading Financial One.

Ivan Shlygin 07.03.2016 18:18

Cybercriminals were able to attack the Macintosh computer company Apple’s, Reuters reported with reference to the Director of Palo Alto Threat Intelligence Ryan Olson.

According to him, this is the first infection of Apple computers. Up to this point the victims of the attacks were usually users of the software company Microsoft.

virus called KeRanger got on users’ computers through version Transmission of the popular program, which is used to exchange files in the BitTorrent, the expert explains.

were infected version 2.90 Transmission, which was previously released. Developers of urgency to solve the problem created version 2.92.

Olson explained that the virus makes itself felt three days after installation. It encodes all information on your computer and requires a ransom of $ 1 Bitcoins for data recovery

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It is important to note that the virus software provision appeared last Friday. Consequently, the damage from the actions of cybercriminals can be assessed after Monday.

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