Transmission BitTorrent App Contained Malware (cnbc.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Apple users were targeted in the first known Mac ransomware campaign. Hackers targeted Transmission, which is one of the most popular Mac applications used to download software, videos, music, and other data from the BitTorrent peer-to-peer information sharing network. As per this forum post (English screenshot of warning), OS X detected malware called OSX.KeRanger.A. This is the first one in the wild that is functional as it encrypts your files and seeks a ransom. An Apple representative said the company had taken steps over the weekend to prevent attacks by revoking a digital certificate from a legitimate Apple developer that enabled the rogue software to install on Macs.

Comments

Re:Digital certs don't make your software secure

[Anonymous Coward]

Right. Because Macs run iOS. Of course.

They don't, but the iDevice simulators in Xcode do.

Time Machine

[khchung]

So, if you find your important file encrypted by ransomware, how difficult is it to just restore it from a Time Machine backup?

After all, once it was encrypted, you can use it anymore, so it is simple to just get the version before the last update time.