Website Of Handbrake App Hacked To Spread Proton Rat For Mac

1. Website Of Handbrake App Hacked To Spread Proton Rat For Mac Pro
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The website of the HandBrake app has been compromised, and one of its download mirrors modified to host a version of the Proton RAT embedded in the app’s Mac client. HandBrake is a multi-platform transcoder, an app that helps users convert multimedia files from one format to another.

Website Of Handbrake App Hacked To Spread Proton Rat For Mac Pro

On May 7th, the Popular software Handbrake reported that if you have recently downloaded the video transcoder app handbrake on your mac, there are chances that your computer is infected. According Handbrake, Anyone downloading handbrake on Mac between May 2nd, 2017 and May 6th, 2017, may be infected. If you installed the software during this time frame, you should check your OSX activity Monitor application. If there is a process called activityagent, then, your Mac is infected. You can removed the malware by the following steps: Open up the 'Terminal' application and run the following commands:. launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/fr.handbrake.activityagent.plist.

Website Of Handbrake App Hacked To Spread Proton Rat For Mac Download

rm -rf /Library/RenderFiles/activityagent.app. if /Library/VideoFrameworks/ contains proton.zip, remove the folder. Then Remove any 'HandBrake.app' installs you may have. If you have any questions or need assistance with removing the software, please contact the DECS Support Office at support@egr.msu.edu.