![]() ![]() This, however, raises the issue of apples’ security as a whole – if an ID is that easily stolen what’s stopping hackers from releasing more malware using fake IDs? Hopefully Apple will take this incident to heart and improve on their system to prevent such incidents from repeating. It is highly likely that this ID has been stolen by the hackers as well.Īs of now the compromised ID has been labeled as dangerous and an update has been distributed to all Apple OS X devices to block installation of any other software using the same ID. The certificate ID used to sign the malware infected version is Z7276PX673 and actually belongs to a Turkish software developer. This is also supported by the fact that the infected installer was signed with a legitimate certificate that is, however, different from the certificates used to sign previous versions of the program. You will find our detailed guide on how to remove KeRanger here (the malware hidden inside Transmission).Īs Transmission is a fully open-sourced project it is highly likely that their page was hacked in order to release the malware infected installer. When you are dealing with dangerous viruses like ransomware extra caution is never wasted. Even if you updated Transmission to 2.92 it is still a good idea to manually sweep your device for any remaining virus infected files.Please note that while version 2.91 was never infected it also did not automatically remove the malware infected file. All people that downloaded Transmission 2.90 and 2.91 should immediately update the program to version 2.92. Transmission’s main page was hacked on and the installer Transmission 2.90 was replaced with a malware infected file. Transmission “ransomware” is a popular Apple OS X torrent client, which was recently targeted by a group of hackers seeking to release a new version of ransomware named KeRanger, which is fully capable of targeting all mac OS X based devices. ![]() Transmission Torrent Ransomeware Ransomware for Apple OS X is real ![]()
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