Smokelocke: scammers disguised hidden miner under update Adobe Flash Player
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After a rapid rally of Bitcoin and the total market at the end of last year, scriptural filled with scammers. Their level of skill is constantly growing. A new idea for cyber criminals to hide malicious software in the installation file for Adobe Flash Player. This time, however, they are not only harmful to users, but the benefit — in addition to installing malware, spread the file actually updates the Flash Player.
A New way to spread malicious software was discovered by researcher brad Duncan of Palo Alto's Unit 42. To install it on users ' computers, the scammers give out the program for updates for Adobe Flash player.
How to protect yourself from the hidden mining
Together with the update on the users computers is installed the script XMRig cryptocurrency miner for mining Monero. The user is very difficult to guess the presence of vulnerabilities the update process looks exactly the same as when you install the original version of the application.
In most cases, fake Flash updates easy to recognize. But not this — player update does occur and the victim may not notice anything unusual.
Previously, analysts from research company Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen has estimated that people around the world bring the fraudsters script Coinhive for covert mining Monero equivalent of 250 thousand dollars.
Experts pointed out that Coinhive provides about 1.8% of all mining capacity Monero. And more than 80 percent of the links on file sharing are to download programs for covert mining of cryptocurrencies, notes .
The Monero Developers are trying to rectify the situation, but to do this they fail. In such situations, for their safety are only liable to the users themselves — so loading all programs and updates should only from the official websites.
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