It was a compromised version of Transmission, a BitTorrent client for Mac. It only affected the version hosted on their website (site was hacked) not the automatic update version.
The only thing you need to do to mitigate ransomware is to keep an up to date Time Machine backup. Regards Sam <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen ACMT +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 7 Mar 2016, at 21:28, Phil Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > > All, > > Over the last couple of days I’ve been hearing and reading lots about > “ransomware”. Should we Mac users be concerned or is it more of a Windows > security issue? > > Phil > > ---- > Phil Ward > > Skype: aphilw > E: [email protected] > > W: philward.biz > W: audio-icons.com > W: soundcloud.com/philberish > W: peggysdiaries.wordpress.com > > • Freelance writer and product designer. > • Contributor to Sound on Sound magazine. > • UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
