It has recently come to light that users who downloaded version 2.90 of the Transmission BitTorrent client for OS X from official website after 3.00 GMT, March 4, 2016 and before 1100 GMT, March 5, 2016, may be been infected by the "KeRanger" ransomware.
If you are running Transmission on your Mac (and yes, there are legitimate uses for torrents) then please ensure that you update to 2.92 immediately as this version is free of malware and additionally, it removes the malware caused by the previous build (2.90).
This demonstrates that although malware is less common on Macs when compared to their Windows counterparts, they are certainly not invulnerable to malicious applications and care still needs to be taken to avoid being affected by malware. Such steps can include:
- Ensuring that OS X is kept up-to-date
- Installing anti-virus on your Mac
- Being careful to only download applications from trusted sources.
If you have any questions or concerns then please get in touch with the IT help team.
