Moreover, with the right signature of Transmission, it was easy to have Gatekeeper's consent for getting the malware planted. The malware bundled with Transmission would run, the application proving sufficient for the purpose, even there wouldn't be need for it to authenticate its user except to the extent that enables Transmission's installation. It was proliferated via Transmission's recompiled version and done from its authorized site. Researchers with We-Live-Security a security website have uncovered the malicious program as OSX/Keydnap. Only five months following that, the widely-accepted client of BitTorrent has again become associated with another OS X malware just detected. Transmission the Popular BitTorrent Client Yet Again Associated with Mac MalwareĪ ransomware and the first to infect Mac affected Transmission a BitTorrent application.
