“Apple Users Data Held for Ransom”
Palo Alto Networks Inc. a cyber-security company told Reuters Sunday that “Apple Inc (AAPL.O) customers were targeted by hackers over the weekend in the first campaign against Macintosh computers”. This was done using ransom-ware, a type of virus that encrypts the data on the infected machine and can only be unencrypted using the correct encryption key which is provided to the user once they pay the ransom. This was downloaded along with version 2.9 of Transmission a data transfer application used on peer to peer networks and Transmission users are urged to upgrade to version 2.92. For the full article, click here
