"...has shut down the first <i>fully-functional</i> Mac OS X ransomeware"<p>Here I was hoping it was the second malware coded with functional programming. Scheme last time [1]. I was hoping to see some systems Haskell or ATS in there. Oh well. Always another opportunity when it comes to malware.<p>[1] <a href="http://philosecurity.org/2009/01/12/interview-with-an-adware-author" rel="nofollow">http://philosecurity.org/2009/01/12/interview-with-an-adware...</a>
Has the Transmission team offered any explanation of how the tainted binary ended up being served by them? My concern is that the attackers were also able to maliciously modify the Transmission source code.
That is a poor error message. I would assume apple was trying to block me from using torrents rather than protect me from malware if I saw that error and hadn't kept up with the news.
> The fact that OS X has now been targeted speaks to the popularity of Apple’s operating system<p>It's not a security breach it's a problem of rising popularity. That's one way to spin it.