Over the weekend, Apple customers who were looking for the latest version of Transmission, a popular BitTorrent client, likely downloaded a new family of Ransomware that targets OS X installations instead. The problem was discovered by Unit 42 researchers at Palo Alto Networks. They’ve named the Ransomware family KeRanger, and published a brief on the malware that goes into technical details.
“Users who have directly downloaded Transmission installer from official website after 11:00am PST, March 4, 2016 and before 7:00pm PST, March 5, 2016, may be been infected by KeRanger.
