You have 50/50 chance if you’ve downloaded HandBrake during this period.” “Anyone who has installed HandBrake for Mac needs to verify their system is not infected with a Trojan. “Anyone who has downloaded HandBrake on Mac between and needs to verify the SHA1 / 256 sum of the file before running it.” reads a security warning published on the HandBrake forum. Users of version 0.10.5 and earlier who used the built-in updater during those five days might be affected. The users of HandBrake 1.0 and later who upgraded their version to version 1.0.7 using the built-in update feature shouldn’t be affected because the updater verifies the checksum of the package. The attackers broke into a download mirror server hosted under for HandBrake and compromised it to distribute a macOS version of the software packaged with a malware.The primary download server was not compromised by hackers, for this reason,users who downloaded HandBrake-1.0.7.dmg have a 50/50 chance of having installed a trojanize version of the applications. The handlers of the project urge users to verify the SHA1 or SHA256 sum of the file before running it.

Mac users who downloaded and installed the program from May 2 to May 6 need to check their computers for malware. Maintainers of the open-source HandBrake video transcoder are warning Mac users who recently downloaded the application that they may have been infected with malware. Maintainers of the HandBrake video transcoder are warning Mac users who recently downloaded the software that they may have been infected with malware.

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