Microsoft Threat Intelligence, the Global Network for Security Experts in Giant Technology, has, Release A warning about a large “dodging” campaign targeting encrypted currency traders.
The campaign that was highlighted by Microsoft became active earlier this month.
Reassured users are lured in a harmful installed installer presented as legal trading tools from well -known companies such as Binance and TradingView with the help of false ads.
The hidden programs based on the hidden node.js are inside the package that was immediately downloaded with the system and begins to collect information about the victim’s computer with creating a scheduled task to ensure that the malware on the system.
The scheduled scheduled task is able to avoid the discovery of antivirus.
The victim gets a window that displays a legitimate trading site for the encrypted currency as a trap.
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Harmful text programs collect a wide range of data that includes the list of installed programs, BIOS version, area settings, network adapter details, etc.
Information collected can be used to target certain victims or plan future attacks.
In order to protect themselves from the ongoing malicious campaign, potential victims are recommended to monitor the behavior of suspicious scenario, enable the protection of the end point, and restrict external communication.
“Institutions can reduce the impact of attacks from Node.js by educating users about the risk of downloading programs from non -verification sources, monitoring and restricting the implementation of Node.js,” said Microsoft.
Last year, as It was mentioned by u.todayCEPTOQUANT KI Young JU stated that Windows may be more dangerous for cryptocurrencies compared to MacOS.
