Even though Spider-Man: no way home is still on billboard and it can be seen by those who have not done it yet, or a thousand times more by the most staunch fans, there are people who prefer illegal methods and are downloading the film through torrents. But when they do, they have to be very careful with a dangerous virus that they can run into with every download.
What type of virus can arrive with each download?
According to the American firm of cybersecurity ReasonLabs, for those who have decided to illegally download Spider-Man: no way home, instead of getting the movie, they are going to get a cryptocurrency mining malware called Monero.
The researchers point out that the attackers went to great lengths to disguise the malware using legitimate names to go unnoticed by antivirus, and even visually reviewing the code. In this case, the malware It impersonates Google files and also disables Windows Defender functions.
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How does this virus work?
Although the report clarifies that the malware does not compromise the personal information of the victims, it does visibly affect the performance of the computers, due to the high CPU consumption required by mining software.
This virus causes the computer to join a mining network without your knowledge and can cause serious hardware damage because it goes to work at full power without rest and many normal antivirus can not do anything against it, especially if the user decides to run the file when he thinks he is going to watch a movie. That it is an * .exe instead of a video format is an important clue not to run it, but it still seems to be affecting a lot of people, the cybersecurity company reported.
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How was the cyber attack reported?
Researchers at ReasonLabs raised the alert via the company’s official blog last week. According to the report, they detected this Monero mining software that had been attached to a copy of Spider-Man: no way home. “The file is identified as ‘spiderman_net_putidomoi.torrent.exe’, which translates from Russian as ‘spiderman_no_wayhome.torrent.exe’. The source of the file is most likely from a Russian torrent website, ”the report says.
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