Transmission infected with KeRanger (fully functional ransomware)!

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http://researchcenter.paloaltonetwo...ted-transmission-bittorrent-client-installer/

Attackers infected two installers of Transmission version 2.90 with KeRanger on the morning of March 4.

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.

Transmission automatically updated for me on the 28th February and so the version I had was clean but I wonder how many people this has affected.

/edit - It seems that it only affected people who downloaded directly from the website, not those that updated from within the app itself.

This is nasty, very nasty.

 

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Well no, app updates can't be hijacked. If you read further into it, the only way to get this was on a fresh download directly from the website. If you used the in app updater, it was clean.