Ransomware KeRanger, which demands a ransom to restore your data and targeting Mac, would actually derived from the best-known malware Linux.Encoder, plaguing him on Linux distributions.
There are some days, we learned that the environment OS X to Apple became vulnerable for the first time in a ransomware, named KeRanger . It hides in a version of the BitTorrent client Transmission. Yesterday, the company specialized in computer security Bitdefender Labs, announced that it would be a port of ransomware malware Linux .Encoder that target the Linux system.
KeRanger the first ransomware that affects Mac
Ransomware is a type of malware more and more widespread. Once the computer is infected, the malware encrypts your data. Then it asks you to pay a certain amount for that encryption is canceled and you have again access to your data. A hostage data somehow.
KeRanger part of this type of malware and we learned a few days ago he attacked the Mac. This is the first malware that arrives on Apple products and many machines have already paid the price.Fortunately, since the Cupertino reacted and blocked the malware that was found in Transmission, a BitTorrent Client widely used on this platform.
KeRanger would be a malware derived Linux.Encoder
Security experts from home Bitdefender, the publisher of the virus of the same name, analyzed KeRanger and realized it would be a remake of malware that had raged there for several months on Linux systems. The hackers responsible for KeRanger could therefore be the same that are behind Linux.Encoder.
KeRanger would be almost perfect copy of the latest version of Linux.Encoder according Cosoi, the head of security in Bitdefender. " Encryption functions are identical and have the same names: encrypt_file, recursive_task, currentTimestamp and createDaemon to mention a few. The encryption routine is identical to that used in Linux.Encoder "he explained.
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