Malicious actors began distributing malware for covert cryptocurrency mining via a torrent file for the popular film Spider-Man: No Way Home, according to experts at ReasonLabs.
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Experts detected Monero-mining malware in a file named spiderman_net_putidomoi.torrent.exe. It appears to have been created on a Russian-language torrent platform.
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The covert miner can remain undetected for long periods by abusing the exclusions in Microsoft Defender antivirus scans.
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Researchers noted that the malware does not compromise personal information but slows the victim’s computer by imposing additional CPU load.
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As reported in November, 86% of hacked Google Cloud accounts were used for mining cryptocurrencies.
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