The Office of Technology Services (OTS) is aware of a new malicious software program named “WannaCry” that has recently made news through large-scale infections in at least 99 different countries, crippling computers worldwide. What is WannaCry? WannaCry is a type of malicious software known as ransomware, and in this particular case, exploits a flaw in Microsoft […]
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OTS warning to Mac Users: OS X Ransomware Detected
The Office of Technology Services (OTS) is informing the campus about the first known case of ransomware for OS X users, which was detected in the Transmission BitTorrent Client Installer App on March 4, 2016. Ransomware uses malicious software to encrypt user data, holding it “hostage” until the demanded ransom is paid to the attackers […]
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