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03-07-2016, 12:41 PM
First this OS X ransomware encrypts your data, then asks for money
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Ransomware is a particularly nasty piece of malware: After your computer is infected, it encrypts your data and refuses to give you the key unless you pay its makers a sum of money. Save for any glaring mistakes in the malware's implementation, paying up is usually the only feasible way to get your data back, especially if you don't have a backup.*
**w, according to security company Palo Alto Networks (http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2016/03/new-os-x-ransomware-keranger-infected-transmission-bittorrent-client-installer/), the first functional ransomware that operates on Apple's OS X has been discovered.*
SEE ALSO: ******s demand $3.4 million in Hollywood hospital data attack (http://mashable.com/2016/02/16/hollywood-hospital-hacked/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Dubbed KeRanger, the malware was embedded with version 2.90 of the Transmission software, **rmally a legitimate BitTorrent app. It waits three days before encrypting certain types of data on an infected system, and then it asks for one bitcoin (around $405) in ransom.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/07/keranger-ransomware-os-x/)
More about Transmission (http://mashable.com/category/transmission/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Keranger (http://mashable.com/category/keranger/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Ransomware (http://mashable.com/category/ransomware/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Malware (http://mashable.com/category/malware/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Virus (http://mashable.com/category/virus/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/xoKp6RK_xUk
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Ransomware is a particularly nasty piece of malware: After your computer is infected, it encrypts your data and refuses to give you the key unless you pay its makers a sum of money. Save for any glaring mistakes in the malware's implementation, paying up is usually the only feasible way to get your data back, especially if you don't have a backup.*
**w, according to security company Palo Alto Networks (http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2016/03/new-os-x-ransomware-keranger-infected-transmission-bittorrent-client-installer/), the first functional ransomware that operates on Apple's OS X has been discovered.*
SEE ALSO: ******s demand $3.4 million in Hollywood hospital data attack (http://mashable.com/2016/02/16/hollywood-hospital-hacked/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Dubbed KeRanger, the malware was embedded with version 2.90 of the Transmission software, **rmally a legitimate BitTorrent app. It waits three days before encrypting certain types of data on an infected system, and then it asks for one bitcoin (around $405) in ransom.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/07/keranger-ransomware-os-x/)
More about Transmission (http://mashable.com/category/transmission/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Keranger (http://mashable.com/category/keranger/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Ransomware (http://mashable.com/category/ransomware/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Malware (http://mashable.com/category/malware/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Virus (http://mashable.com/category/virus/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/xoKp6RK_xUk