Nitrokod Crypto Miner Hiding in Fake Microsoft and Google Translate Apps

By Waqas Nitrokod crypto miner mines Monero XMR coin on infected devices and so far it has targeted 111,000 unsuspecting users in 11 countries. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Nitrokod Crypto Miner Hiding in Fake Microsoft and Google Translate Apps...

Nitrokod Crypto Miner Infected Over 111,000 Users with Copies of Popular Software

A Turkish-speaking entity called Nitrokod has been attributed to an active cryptocurrency mining campaign that involves impersonating a desktop application for Google Translate to infect over 111,000 victims in 11 countries since 2019. "The malicious tools can be used by anyone," Maya Horowitz,...