Password cracker software creates crypto-stealing botnets
a campaign to infect industrial control systems with Sality malware via a trojan embedded in password cracking software.
However, the researchers found that the password recovery software infects the host machine with Sality malware. “This specific sample of Sality also drops clipboard hijacking malware that, every half second, checks the clipboard for a cryptocurrency address format.”The researchers said Sality could manipulate the Windows Autorun function to copy itself onto shared network drives, external drives, and removable media to infect other systems.
“[We] were able to successfully recreate the exploit over Ethernet, increasing the severity of this vulnerability significantly,” Dragos said.
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