360 Total Security Saves Users From Crypto-Mining Malware 05-13-2018, 11:14 AM
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Greetings everyone,
There's a lot of users (myself Inclusive), who do not run an AV and solely rely on common sense & good judgement to protect our systems whilst navigating online. The following article necessitates the act of having an AV actively monitoring a given device.
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There's a lot of users (myself Inclusive), who do not run an AV and solely rely on common sense & good judgement to protect our systems whilst navigating online. The following article necessitates the act of having an AV actively monitoring a given device.
Quote:360 Total Security Center released a blog post stating that they had received some information about a malware infection which will use the victim’s computer to mine cryptocurrency.
The malware enters the victim’s computer after installing the application One System Care. The malware then infects the computer with a cryptocurrency miner in which DNS settings will be altered and ads will be displayed. It will also have constant updates by creating a PowerShell script which will hide the malware from the systems scheduled tasks. The miner will then proceed to mine cryptocurrency.
The malware affected over a million computers and 360 total security received various complaints from customers. The company took care of the problem and saved all the computers. They also reminded customers to enable/update the new antivirus software to protect themselves from future viruses
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