I saw the beginning of this week, a new kind of cyber attacks that prevent the user from accessing the files until a ransom was paid for the release of those files while looked like hostage-taking operations.
The new attack targeted computers running Mac OS X operating system was implemented across the malicious software called "Ransom-ware" Ransomware in reference to the ransom demanded by the launch of these attacks.
And it adopted a pirate attack on a Macintosh Computers on a fake version of the popular programs such as "BitTorrent" special download huge files from the Internet, but in fact, these programs are control of the computer until the "pay-off".
He said experts in the field of protection, told Reuters that this kind of malicious programs are most prevalent in these days, and relies in its work to encrypt user files in a way prevented him from accessing it, and then implementers ask those attacks amounts digital currencies such as the "Queens bit."
Protection experts estimated the value of the amounts ransom demanded by the pirates cyber hundreds of millions of dollars in this type of attacks that targeted, in particular, computers that run the Windows operating system, while the attacks on the Macintosh Computers new of its kind.
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