A mass malware campaign is infecting users with a cryptocurrency miner, SilentCryptoMiner, disguised as a tool to unblock internet restrictions. Russian cyber security company, Kaspersky, revealed that over 2000 users have fallen victim to the scam, shared via a YouTube channel with 60,000 subscribers. The miner, concealed in an executable file, circumvents anti-virus scans using process hollowing and can be remotely controlled.
1 Million Devices Infected by Malwares Hosted on GitHub, Microsoft Warns
In December 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified a large-scale malvertising campaign (Storm-0408) that infected nearly one million devices globally, targeting both consumer and enterprise sectors
