[Swordmaker]

If you are a user of Torrents on Apple Mac OS X, you may be susceptible to a new OS X RansomWare that is hitting such users this weekend. It encrypts your Mac's data and then the crooks demand payment in hundreds of dollars in bitcoins to provide you the key to decipher your data. Be certain you have a viable TimeMachine backup to avoid having to pay to get your personal data back. This only hits people who are using Transmission's software version 2.90 which has become infected with a Trojan that will encrypt your data three days after download and installation. There is a newer version 2.91 that is not infected, but it does not remove the malware. 2.92 is newer even yet and will remove the malicious files. If you are a user of Torrent and use this software UPDATE immediately! — PING!

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[dayglored]

Ouch! Ransomware for Macs... geez... well it had to happen eventually... sounds like it’s fixable, as long as it hasn’t already hit...

[Swordmaker]

Earlier thread on the same article over here started by Mad Dawgg:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3405947/posts

Missed it on a search.