![]() When we identified the issue, the infected DMG files were still available for downloading from the Transmission site (hxxps:///files/Transmission-2.90dmg) Transmission is an open source project. As FileCoder was incomplete at the time of its discovery, we believe KeRanger is the first fully functional ransomware seen on the OS X platform.Īttackers infected two installers of Transmission version 2.90 with KeRanger on the morning of March 4. We have named this Ransomware “KeRanger.” The only previous ransomware for OS X we are aware of is FileCoder, discovered by Kaspersky Lab in 2014. On March 4, we detected that the Transmission BitTorrent client installer for OS X was infected with ransomware, just a few hours after installers were initially posted.
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