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All those dubious excuses needed by traditional romance scammers to talk you into using wire transfer services to send money, or into buying them gift cards and sending through the redemption codes, are replaced by a sense of structure: there's a genuine app for this investment! The cryptorom scammers will even offer you an app if you have an iPhone, where Apple's "Walled garden" approach of requiring all consumer app downloads to come from the Apple App Store almost certainly persuades many victims that the cryptorom app must indeed have some sort of official authorisation or approval.
Sadly unlawful cryptomining is still a thing, and SophosLabs has just published a report that follows the evolution and operation of the cybercrime gang behind a botnet known as Kingminer. Servers have two desirable properties for cryptomining abuse, namely that they're always on, so any unauthorised mining runs 24/7, and they're usually much more powerful than the average laptop, so the crooks can dial in decent earnings without taking over the server so completely that they get noticed.
SophosLabs just published an informative report entitled Maze ransomware: extorting victims for 1 year and counting. Sadly, Maze has been in the news quite frequently in recent months, notably because the gang who created it have been in the vanguard of a new wave of "Double-whammy" ransomware attacks.
Just because a malware family isn't all over the headlines doesn't mean it isn't interesting... or important... or dangerous!
As internet users migrate from desktop and laptop computers to mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, cybercriminals are too.
Cyberattackers are successfully evading detection on Windows computers by abusing legitimate admin tools that come pre-installed with the operating system.
This year's SophosLabs Threat Report is out. We talk targeted ransomware attacks, and in particular, SamSam.
