The crowded ransomware market is now home to three newly discovered players that recently gained the attention of security researchers and malware analysts — including one that targets Mac users and another blamed for a recent attack on the Texas Department of Transportation.
Dubbed OSX.EvilQuest, the Mac ransomware was observed being distributed on a Russian torrent link-sharing forum in the form of a downloadable disk image file. This file posed as an installer for the Little Snitch host-based application firewall.
Researchers from Objective-See and Malwarebytes have both reported on the threat [1, 2], with the former crediting K7 Computing researcher Dinesh Devadoss with first tweeting about a OSX.EvilQuest malware sample with a zero-percent anti-virus detection rate and a file name impersonating a Google Software Update program.
“It’s not everyday that a new piece of ransomware is uncovered that targets macOs,” observed Patrick Wardle, founder of Objective ..
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