Cryptominer Disguised as Google Translate Targeted 11 Countries
Created by a Turkish-speaking entity, the malware claimed around 111,000 victims in 11 countries
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Created by a Turkish-speaking entity, the malware claimed around 111,000 victims in 11 countries
A Turkish-speaking entity called Nitrokod has been attributed to an active cryptocurrency mining campaign that involves impersonating a desktop application for Google Translate to infect over 111,000 victims in 11 countries since 2019. "The malicious tools can be used by anyone," Maya Horowitz, vice president of research at Check Point, said in a statement shared with The Hacker News. "They can
Google has announced the public preview of a new Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD) system that can detect cryptocurrency miners and other malware without the need for software agents. [...]