Apple users targeted in ransomware attack

[Kevin Lancaster]

Apple users targeted in ransomware attack

Apple users have been targeted by cyber criminals in a ransomware attack against Mac computers.

 

[JimM]

Oh, where are they now?

My Mac is way better than a PC... blah be blah...

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Glad I don't use Transmission.

 

[backstreetboy]

Oh, where are they now?

My Mac is way better than a PC... blah be blah...

Prolly busy watching

[video=youtube;0eEG5LVXdKo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eEG5LVXdKo[/video]

 

[AfricanTech]

Oh, where are they now?

My Mac is way better than a PC... blah be blah...

Palo Alto Networks said it detected that the Transmission BitTorrent installer for OS X was infected with ransomware on 4 March.

“The only previous ransomware for OS X we are aware of is FileCoder, discovered by Kaspersky Lab in 2014,” the company said,

“As FileCoder was incomplete at the time of its discovery, we believe KeRanger is the first fully-functional ransomware seen on the OS X platform.”

 

[supersunbird]

Prolly busy watching

[video=youtube;0eEG5LVXdKo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eEG5LVXdKo[/video]

Starts at 5:08, "I don't need to worry about your spyware and viruses"... yeah right.

 

[myKey]

lmao so OS X gets a new targeted malware and everyone goes apeship, meanwhile Winblows has had countless (literally countless) variations of cryptoware and other malware for as long as it's been around.

 

[itareanlnotani]

I had posted this earlier - http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...Transmission-2-90-backdoored-contains-Malware

 

[Arthur]

Hehe. And I posted it the day before, here:

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...users-researchers-say?p=17228677#post17228677

 

[bwana]

Prolly busy watching

Surely you could have found something more recent than 2006?

 

[greg0205]

Glad I don't use Transmission.

Update was out yesterday... Still the best Mac torrent client IMO.

 

[Bryn]

Prolly busy watching

[video=youtube;0eEG5LVXdKo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eEG5LVXdKo[/video]

I always found it strange that Apple made fun of PC's for not being 'fun' enough, and yet gaming on a Mac is total crap.

 

[kianm]

So everyone has their day?