That 'free' Adobe or Microsoft software isn't all it's cracked up to be, eh?
We don't know who needs to hear this, but don't download cracked commercial software. Researchers claim more than 500,000 PCs have been left wriggling with malware after a cracked app went on to retrieve further nasties from Bitbucket repos.
Security company Cybereason has studied a campaign to deliver "an arsenal of malware" including credential stealers, cryptocurrency miners, ransomware and crypto-coin pinchers.
"It is also able to take pictures using the camera [and] take screenshots," wrote researchers Lior Rochberger and Assaf Dahan.
How this stuff was managed and coordinated without bringing the user's machine to a standstill is not specifically mentioned, but the duo added that "the combination of so many different types of malware exfiltrating so many ..
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