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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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