The macOS version of the popular Transmission BitTorrent client distributed from the project’s official website was found to contain malware on two separate occasions last year.
This is not the first time Mac users have been targeted through such attacks either.
“This generic technique of targeting self-updating software and their infrastructure has played a part in a series of high-profile attacks, such as unrelated incidents targeting Altair Technologies’ EvLog update process, the auto-update mechanism for South Korean software SimDisk, and the update server used by ESTsoft’s ALZip compression application,” the Microsoft researchers said in a blog post.
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