Beware of third party downloads
"The Tor Project called to help keep Russian users connected to Tor to circumvent censorship," Vitaly Kamluk, head of Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team for APAC,in a blog about the clipper malware."Malware authors heard the call and responded by creating trojanized Tor browser bundles and distributing them among Russian-speaking users."
Once the file is downloaded, the executable – usually disguised as uTorrent or another app icon – starts as a new process and the malware gets to work. It continually scans the user's Windows clipboard data, and when it detects a cryptocurrency wallet address, it replaces that address with one controlled by the attacker.
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