Transmission, one of the most used non-commercial BitTorrent clients, has the dubious honor of becoming the first OSX application to be infected by ransomware. Users who install the malicious application risk having their computers encrypted, with attackers demanding a Bitcoin payment to decrypt it.
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The Transmission team, meanwhile, has added a warning message to
their site, alerting users to upgrade their clients right away.
“Everyone running 2.90 on OS X should immediately upgrade to 2.92, as they may have downloaded a malware-infected file. This new version will make sure that the ‘OSX.KeRanger.A’ ransomware is correctly removed from you computer,” the warning reads.
