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MAC Attack,,,,,,,,,MAC Attack; How Ransomware Has Evolved To Include MACs 

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The first ransomware attack, AIDS Trojan, was deployed over 30 years ago. Joseph L. Popp, a Harvard academic, is credited for this. At a World Health Organization summit in 1989, he distributed over 20,000 disks to delegates. These disks, labeled “AIDS Information – Introductory Diskettes,” would wait until after the machine they were installed on rebooted for the 90th time.The installed virus would then activate after the reboots and encrypt files and hide directories...

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