Analysis of malware responsible for sextortion spam that mines for Monero on the side

Reason Cybersecurity

was one of the Platinum partners of

VB2019

. After a guest

blog post

published earlier this month, their

researchers

have written an analysis of malware they call ‘Save Yourself’.

The malware is responsible for sending a large number of spam emails part of a sextortion campaign, where the goal is to trick the recipient into believing their computer has been infected and that their porn-browsing details will be published unless they pay an extortion fee. The malware also mines for the Monero cryptocurrency.

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