Mac OS X Ransomware Risk Ranger, Squeeze The Users

Existing operating system on the computer device does not always guarantee the security of its users. Various methods attackers to lure "something", so that the users get trapped by the trap that has been provided. So it is with the users of the Apple operating system, Mac OS X, which is recently being disturbed by the presence of ransomware that can be said to interfere.

How not interfere, ransomware named this KeRanger will encrypt a document file users of Mac OS X are infected with this ransomware. Not only that, to open them, users are attacked by this ransomware is obligated to pay a ransom of $ 1 Bitcoin or the equivalent of 5.3 million rupees. As reported by Tom's Hardware (08/03/2016), said that according to research by security agencies Palo Alto Networks, KeRanger this is the first ransomware who work full time in the operating system Mac OS X.

Palo Alto Networks says that it comes from a ransomware Transmission BitTorrent program in which the program itself is open source. The program's official website promises that the program is safe, but in reality the two programs available net has been replaced with two programs that have been inserted KeRanger.
 
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 KeRanger can escape from scanning Apple Gatekeeper in the Macintosh operating system for this program has been equipped with an official developer certificate. Whereas Gatekeeper role here as a bastion of Macintosh, so that users can not install programs freely from unknown sources, including a program that is infected with malware.

But fortunately Apple directly act quickly to block the certificate attached to the Transmission program. Apple also has updated XProtect to detect antivirus KeRanger this ransomware. For those users who have downloaded a program that has been infected with this ransomware will be warned and advised to delete it.

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