The malware beast raises its head once again. Transmission, a popular BitTorrent client, has been discovered to once again be distributing Mac-based malware under version 2.92, months after it was used to spread a strand of ransomware. Researchers at security firm ESET have been following a malware called OSX/Keydnap, which can steal passwords, and noticed […]
Tag: KeRanger
After a hiatus, a trio of three new discovered Mac malware strains have emerged. The strains, once installed, have the potential to access Web cameras, password keychains, and pretty much every other resource on an infected machine. The first one, as mentioned yesterday, has been dubbed “Elanor” by researchers at antivirus provider Bitdefender and is […]
Ransomware has come to the Mac. Over the weekend, researcher at Palo Alto Networks stated that ransomeware, which encrypts data on infected machines, then typically asks users to pay ransoms in hard-to-trace digital currencies to get an electronic key so they can retrieve their data, has been found to be targeting the Mac OS X […]