 A series of web sites are pushing a scam promising $5-30 worth of free bitcoins a day simply by running their Bitcoin Collector program. In reality, this program does nothing but install ransomware or password-stealing Trojans onto a victim's computer. This scam was first discovered by a malware researcher going by the alias Frost who posted about it on Twitter and discussed it with BleepingComputer.com. The scam is promoted through sites that promise to earn you Ethereum by referring other people to their site. Their FAQ states that by referring 1,000 visits using your referral link you will earn 3 Ethereum, which is worth approximately $750 USD. The claims of earning free Ethereum is not even a real scam. As you can see from the above image, they advertise that you can earn $15-45 a day in Bitcoin "for free and automatically". If you click on this box, you will be brought to another page that promotes a program called "Bitcoin Collector" that when download and run will supposedly generate free Bitcoin for you. It even provides a VirusTotal link to show that it is completely safe, but even though this program has not detections, it is still a Trojan that normally would execute a malicious payload if the payload was present. Depending on the running campaign, this payload is either a ransomware or a password-stealing Trojan. BleepingComputer has executed both of these campaigns and describe them briefly below. The interesting aspect of this cryptocurrency scam is that by the attackers promising free Ethereum by referring users to the site, they effectively gain free promotion for their "BotCollector" Trojan and thus more opportunities to infect visitors. This scam has now switched its payload to an information-stealing Trojan. Frost has told BleepingComputer that this is the Baldr infection, which currently has 32/70 detections at VirusTotal. For this complete article visit OUR FORUM. Google is kicking Chinese tech giant Huawei off its Android platform over fears it is under the influence of Beijing’s government. Google acted because the US Government told it to. Washington and its spies publicly warn about the threat of Huawei being used as a kind of Trojan horse for Oriental spooks, especially via the upcoming 5G network in which China is a world leader. But ICYMI looks at whether this is really about spies, or about America’s fears that there’s a new superpower on the block. Via rt.com  The feud between Huawei and the US government is not new but the company recently lost access to all the important hardware and software, thanks to the sanctions by the Trump administration. This is a big deal for Huawei since the company might not be able to manufacture smartphones altogether. However, Huawei is much more than just a smartphone brand. It’s one of the biggest companies in China and is currently leading the 5G race. With all that in mind, the lawmakers have expressed their concerns in the past and no one is actually happy to see one company dominating the 5G development. It’s not like the concerns are solely based on the fact that Huawei is leading the 5G race but the fact that there’s evidence suggesting wrongdoings on the company’s part. While researching on the topic, we came across an interesting article from PhoneRadar that summed up all the allegations made by lawmakers in the past. The article supported those allegations with proper evidence suggesting Huawei might not be innocent after all. The article goes back to the early 2000s when the Chinese hackers got the passwords of Nortel’s top executives and they accessed the proprietary IP which was then used by Huawei to sell the same services at lower costs forcing Nortel out of the business. Huawei was also accused by Cisco for I.P. infringement and even said that Huawei stole the software code of its routers. The lawsuit was later settled with no details revealed to the public. Fast forward to 2007, FBI found $30,000 cash and a bag full of classified Motorola documents on an employee who was connected to Huawei. The plan was to copy Motorola’s wireless technology for Huawei phones and the case was later settled confidentially. Learn more by visiting OUR FORUM. |
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