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Title: First ransomware targeting Mac users discovered in Transmission BitTorrent client
Post by: HCK on March 07, 2016, 09:00:21 am
First ransomware targeting Mac users discovered in Transmission BitTorrent client

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Last week, Transmission BitTorrent client for Mac received its first major update in a few years. As it turns out though, v2.90 of Transmission was infected with a ransomware, which has silently installed itself in everyone’s Mac who installed the update.  
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