Security News > 2020 > March > Hackers are getting hacked via trojanized hacking tools

Someone has been trojanizing a wide variety of hacking tools to compromise the machines of hackers who want to use the tools for free, Cybereason researcher Amit Serper has revealed.

"So far, we have found samples that are either pretending to be various hacking tools or pretending to be installers of the Chrome Internet browser," they noted.

Among the trojanized hacking tools are exploit scanners, tools for performing SQL injections, account checkers, and so on, as well as cracks/key generators for them.

The individual or group behind this scheme is offering the trojanized tools on various hacking forums and websites, and hosting them on hacked WordPress sites.

"After examining different samples submitted to different subdomains of capeturk.com, it appears that each subdomain is targeting different software and therefore a different set of victims. While all of the samples associated with blog.capeturk.com are targeting various penetration testing and hacking tools, other subdomains are targeting Chrome installers, native Windows applications, and other random programs that have nothing to do with hacking or penetration testing," the researchers added.

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