March 7th 2016

First ransomware has started infecting OSX Computers.

Being very similar to the malicious copy of Linux Mint back in february, except this will encrypt all of your files and demand a ransom.

What’s interesting is how an attacker could replace the legitimate version of Transmission with a malicious copy of OSX.Keranger.A and still not be detect. Of course Transmission is a torrent client, and people who torrent have the stereotype of getting their computers infected with viruses. It’s possible the attackers were trying to exploit this.