In short
- Cyber criminals use fake -ai -tools on social media to spread false malware.
- Malicious platforms Tricks users to download ZIP archives that steal sensitive data.
- Emergent stealer, of which researchers suspect that he was created in Vietnam, can contain extra Trojan Actrow’s remotely.
People are misled to download fake -tools as a way to distribute the information -malware -nood lophil of the information.
According to a security researcher, this malware can harvest browser references, cryptocurrency portion information and more sensitive data.
Morphisec researcher Shmuel Uzan said in a report: “Instead of trusting traditional phishing or cracked software sites, they build convincing AI-theme-platforms-long advertised through legitimate-looking Facebook groups and viral social media campaigns.”
The attackers build convincing AI -theme platforms that can then be advertised on Facebook groups or social media campaigns. Although these may look legitimate, they are just fronting to download people the malware that is hidden in what AI tools seems to be.
These kinds of messages, shared on Facebook, have reached the views up to 62,000, from one message alone.
Some of the identified fake pages for social media are: Luma Dream Machine AI, Luma Dreammaching and Gratistuslibros.
As soon as a user clicks on a message, he is taken to apparently free AI processing aids and have insisted on uploading his image or video. They are then asked to download what looks like the AI tool, but is actually a malignant zip -archive called VideoDreamai.zip. This leads to a Python -Bino paving the way to implement the Netley Stealer.
Some cases have also bundled the data steel with Trojan horses remotely such as Xworm, for more control over the machine and data from the host.
The fatal malware is assessed as Vietnamese origin, according to a Github profile that claims that of “a passionate malware developer from Vietnam”.
Authorities have said that cyber crime is particularly common in Southeast -Asia and there is a history of distributing Stealers software with the help of the Facebook platform specifically.
Published by Stacy Elliott.
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