Security News > 2021 > December > ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Download Installs Cryptominer

Global buzz around the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home is making tons of online noise - an ideal environment for cybercriminals to spread a Monero cryptominer disguised as a download of the newly released film.

A torrent download of Spider-Man: No Way Home is circulating, infected with a persistent Monero cryptominer, according to a new alert from ReasonLabs.

Once the cryptominer is downloaded, the victim might not immediately be aware it's there, running in the background, draining both power and CPU capacity, the ReasonLabs report added.

If downloading potentially dodgy content is a must, the ReasonLabs analysts recommended that users double-check the file extension to any movie file to make sure it ends with.

"We recommend taking extra caution when downloading content of any kind from non-official sources - whether it's a document in an email from an unknown sender, a cracked program from a fishy download portal, or a file from a torrent download," ReasonLabs advised.

"Miners got very popular in the past years because it's easy money and attackers are trying to gain as many victims as possible - by any way possible, including fooling users to download files that are not what they seem."

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https://threatpost.com/spider-man-no-way-home-download-installs-cryptominer/177254/