Nitrokod Crypto Miner Infected Over 111,000 Users with Copies of Popular Software | allinfosecnews.com

Aug. 29, 2022, 10:15 a.m. | noreply@blogger.com (Ravie Lakshmanan)

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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, vice president of research at Check Point, said in a statement shared with The Hacker News. "They can

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