Apple users were targeted by hackers over the weekend in a first of its kind attack campaign with Mac ransomware. Palo Alto Threat Intelligence Director Ryan Olson said that the “KeRanger” malware emerged on Friday and was the first functioning ransomware that affected Mac computers.
“This is the first one in the wild that is definitely functional, encrypts your files and seeks a ransom,” the Reuters quoted Olson as saying.
According to Palo Alto, the hackers made use of a tainted copy of popular program known as the Transmission to infect Macs. The programme is used to transfer data through Bit Torrent file sharing network. It said in a blog post that, when Mac users downloaded the newest version of the programme, that is Transmission 2.90, which released on Friday, their computers got infected with the ransomware.
“Transmission is an open source project. It’s possible that Transmission’s official website was compromised and the files were replaced by re-compiled malicious versions, but we can’t confirm how this infection occurred,” Palo Alto said in the blog entry. For the full article click here
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