The so–called “unfilter” software installs hidden malware capable of stealing passwords, credit cards, and other personal information.
.” Users taking part in the challenge post nude or mostly nude images of themselves on TikTok and then apply an invisibility filter to remove their body from the video, leaving only a ghostly blurry image in their wake. Preying on viewer’s curious impulses, the attackers offer up a so-called “unfilter” software they say can remove the filter. In reality, that “unfilter” download actually comes jam-packed with malware capable of stealing passwords, credit cards and other personal information.
Attackers cited in the Checkmarx report posted their own TikTok videos promoting software they claim could remove the invisible filter. Those videos included links to a Discord server where users could go and download the files. That server, called “Space Unfilter,” includes nude images uploaded by the attackers offered as proof that the unfilter tools works.
“The high number of users tempted to join this Discord server and potentially install this malware is concerning,” Checkmarx Software Engineer Guy Nachshon said in a
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