[Vultra]

Hello all.

This I personally find clever. This new piece of malware is designed to check what is your hardware of your machine, are you running on a VM & what antivirus you're running. After that, it will decide if it's either gonna be a crypto or ransom machine. The way it works is a old style, you would receive and email, the email will contain a word document. The user has to "Enable editing" if they would like to edit the file. After that, the malware will the run in the background and, follow what it is given by what was stated above "This new piece of malware is designed to check what is your hardware of your machine, are you running on a VM & what antivirus you're running."

An ever-evolving form of malware has added a new tactic which sees it choose to deliver ransomware or a cryptojacker depending on the circumstances of the infected victim.

If an infected computer contains a bitcoin wallet, the malware will install file-encrypting ransomware -- if there's no pre-existing cryptocurrency folder and the computer is capable of mining cryptocurrency, a miner will be downloaded and installed for the purposes of exploiting the PC's power to generate cryptocurrency.

The cryptocurrency miner is the latest addition to Rakhni Trojan, a malware family that has existed since 2013 and has continually evolved over its five-year existence. It appears that that those behind the malware are looking to exploit the rise of cryptocurrency mining malware while also combining it with their traditional attacks.

2 articles: TheHackerNews & zdnet

[mothered]

This new piece of malware is designed to check what is your hardware of your machine, are you running on a VM & what antivirus you're running.

Nothing new, and It doesn't take a piece of malware to achieve the above.

Hardware leaks, Cross-Browser fingerprinting on an OS & hardware level and Ultra sonic cross-device tracking can also Identify software and hardware components and a lot more. To mention a few:

* CPU- architecture, number of cores, threads, make, model and manufacturer.
* GPU- bits, pixels, shaders, make, model, manufacturer.
* Sound card- detected by sound waves, the make, model, manufacturer.
* Software- build & version number, architecture and type.
* Laptop- whether It's plugged In and (If applicable) the duration remaining until fully charged, or running on battery.
And heaps more that's beyond the scope of this post.

That aside, I'll look Into the article In depth.
Appreciate the contribution.

[Eddy13r0]

Build a Berlin wall or Mexican Wall, Oops i mean Firewall.

Used Paid Anti-virus to stay free as long some anti-virus promising security.