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Gamers Beware: Sneaky Trojan Turns Your PC into a Crypto Mining Machine!
StaryDobry, a large-scale cyber campaign, tricked users into downloading trojanized game installers, deploying a cryptocurrency miner on Windows machines. Using popular games as bait, this campaign targeted powerful gaming computers worldwide, with high infection rates in Russia, Brazil, and Germany. The XMRig miner only activates on CPUs with 8 or more cores.
Hot Take:
Forget about leveling up your gaming skills; the only thing going through the roof here is your electricity bill! Thanks to StaryDobry, gamers trying to download their favorite simulators are getting a crash course in cryptocurrency mining instead. Who knew gaming could be so… profitable? (For someone else, that is.)
Key Points:
- Cybercriminals lure gamers with trojanized installers of popular games.
- The campaign, dubbed StaryDobry, was active for a month.
- Targeted regions include Russia, Brazil, Germany, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
- The attack uses a sophisticated chain involving multiple DLLs and executables.
- The payload is a miner using the XMRig cryptocurrency miner software.
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