[pvnk]

Everyone running 2.90 on OS X should immediately upgrade to 2.91 or delete their copy of 2.90, as they may have downloaded a malware-infected file.

Using “Activity Monitor” preinstalled in OS X, check whether any process named “kernel_service” is running. If so, double check the process, choose the “Open Files and Ports” and check whether there is a file name like “/Users//Library/kernel_service”. If so, the process is KeRanger’s main process. We suggest terminating it with “Quit -> Force Quit”.

This probably affects everyone with Transmission 2.90 on OS X.

[sleaze]

i don't think we have any/many macfags

[pvnk]

i don't think we have any/many macfags

I don't care about what you think.

[Skullmeat]

I was just looking at a video about this today... Ransomware on Mac OSX... Still belive macs dont get malware folks?

[ねこまっしぐら]

The transmission on my car blew up today.

[pvnk]

The transmission on my car blew up today.

Shame it didn't blow you up.

[Wildfire]

Honestly not surprised at all. Sure as hell would put hardcore Apple paraders in their place though. I'm on a MacBook Pro right now actually, but it's running Fedora 23.

[pvnk]

Honestly not surprised at all. Sure as hell would put hardcore Apple paraders in their place though. I'm on a MacBook Pro right now actually, but it's running Fedora 23.

What I don't understand is why they use that shitty torrent client.

[Wildfire]

What I don't understand is why they use that shitty torrent client.

Oh fuck, yeah of course, I didn't even think about that. uTorrent or BitTorrent or literally anything else, Transmission is shit.

[PLX-2M]

qBittorrent is my favorite client, I have never been a fan of Transmission. With that said, any popular torrent client makes a juicy target, so this is not the last time we will hear of such compromise.