Recently, there has been a significant increase in the number of cybercrime. The latest news came from the popular social media platform YouTube. This time, cybercriminals have started using the YouTube platform to distribute malware. Researchers noticed this situation. pirates, YouTube is malicious uses videos for its software. Here are the details!
The link shows how Bitcoin mining works
Cyble Research LabsResearchers recently stumbled upon a video. This video all to a small number of viewers and More than 80, all owned by the same user was noted. When they examine the videos more carefully, their viewers Bitcoin mining It seems to lead you to a link that shows how the software works.
The malicious link, which tries to entice viewers to download, is in the video’s description. It’s also available in a password-protected archive to make people believe it’s legit. To be more effective, the downloaded archive should ‘clean‘ as a VirusTotal connection and a positive warning of some antivirus programs.
Google shared user information with Russian company!
According to one analysis, Google provided the data information to a company overseen by the Russian government. The information contains a lot of information about the users.
PennyWise The malware, on the other hand, steals all kinds of data, from system information to login credentials, encryption keys and cookies. Moreover Discord tokens and Telegram sessions It also takes screenshots by playing.
When all these come together, they are collected in a single file and go to a server under the control of the attackers. Then it self-destructs. Also, since PennyWise doesn’t work in an environment-analyzing and defensive environment, ability to be sure also has.
That is, if it discovers that it is in a sandbox or that an analytics tool is running on the device all his actions is stopping. The researchers also realized that all operations would stop if they discovered that the victims of the malware were in Ukraine, Russia or Kazakhstan. At the same time, researchers warn about the need to be wary of YouTube malware links.
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