Recently downloaded “John Wick 3” or “Contagion” through torrent?, it can be malware, Microsoft warns.
There are websites like The Pirate Bay or its alternatives known for providing quality torrent files but then there are prominent torrent uploaders like CracksNow caught distributing GrandCrab ransomware through torrent files.
Now, once again, movie buffs must exercise caution while downloading their favorite new movies via torrent sites as Microsoft’s Security Intelligence researchers have identified an active campaign in which coin-mining malware is injected in movie torrents.
What’s rather unusual about this campaign is that torrent users in South America, Chile, Mexico, and Spain are the primary targets and US movie piracy platforms are safe for now.
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Microsoft issued a warning on its Twitter handle that read:
“With lockdown still in place in many parts of the world, attackers are paying attention to the increase in the use of pirate streaming services and torrent downloads. We saw an active coin miner campaign that inserts a malicious VBScript into ZIP files posing as movie downloads.”
The malware isn’t only limited to John Wick 3 and Contagion but these are the most downloaded ones so far. Other movie torrents infected with malicious payload also include Spanish movies.
Researchers claim that the attackers have embedded a VBScript in the movie’s ZIP folder, and the ZIP files are titled according to the movie, such as John_Wick_3_P ..
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