By Eduard Kovacs on August 30, 2016
The official website for the BitTorrent client Transmission has once again been abused by cybercriminals to deliver a piece of malware designed to target OS X systems.
The security firm ESET warned last month that a new Mac OS X malware started doing the rounds. The threat, dubbed OSX/Keydnap, is capable of stealing the content of the OS X keychain and maintaining a permanent backdoor on the infected system.
At the time, researchers were uncertain how Keydnap had been distributed, but they suspected that cybercriminals used spam messages and downloads from untrusted websites. In reality, it turns out that the malware has also been distributed from a legitimate website.
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Site of BitTorrent App "Transmission" Again Used to Deliver OS X Malware
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