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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday September 04 2016, @05:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the macs-never-get-viruses dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

A. It appears that on or about August 28, 2016, unauthorized access was gained to our [TransmissionBT's] website server. The official Mac version of Transmission 2.92 was replaced with an unauthorized version that contained the OSX/Keydnap malware. The infected file was available for download somewhere between a few hours and less than a day. Additional information about the malware is available here and here.

A. The infected file was removed from the server immediately upon discovering its existence, which was less than 24 hours after the file was posted to the website. To help prevent future incidents, we have migrated the website and all binary files from our current servers to GitHub. Other services, which are currently unavailable, will be migrated to new servers in the coming days. As an added precaution, we will be hosting the binaries and the website (including checksums) in two separate repositories.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @08:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @08:23PM (#397490)

    That we live in an era that we can no longer trust anything we run, and the alternative is to allow for adware to exist and enforcement of adware via validation and authentication via multiple big-brothers...

    I can't shove the internet back into the bottle, but I can try to find something else to do for fun.

    I already know that closing the barn door won't bring the cows and horses back. Anything still in the barn isn't trying to cause problems outside anyway.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @09:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @09:06PM (#397504)

    EF is going to fuck the cows, and eat the horses.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @09:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @09:34PM (#397514)

      That's ass backwards.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @10:04PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @10:04PM (#397531)

        Whatever happens, I still feel milked and they didn't even ask my name -- they just took my wallet, with my ID and money, tipped their hat and left. The barn door is still open and now I am getting advertisements where there used to be none before!