Cryptomining Malware Found In Spider-Man: No Way Home Torrents

Jhon

3 years ago

New research has shown that pirated copies of the popular new movie Spider-Man: No Way Home contain crypto mining malware designed to mine the Monero cryptocurrency. According to ReasonLabs researchers, the first infected copies were found in the Russian language. The film is the first to gross more than $ 1 billion at the box office. However, since there is still no way to watch the movie at home, the torrent version has been leaked on several different sites over the past two weeks.

The malware does not compromise personal information, however the Monero miner damages the victim's computer. The miner runs for long periods and requires high CPU usage, causing the computer to drastically slow down. The malware is reportedly derived from the open source SilentXMRMiner project, which features a point-and-click interface that allows attackers to easily create new miners in a variety of cryptocurrencies. After the torrent movie is downloaded, the malware adds exclusions to Windows Defender to prevent the malware's actions from being tracked. It also creates persistence and a vigilance process to maintain activity.