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The Long Run of Shade Ransomware

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It spreads Shade/ Treshold variants, one of the most dangerous threats in the cyber crime scenario, known since its massive infection into the Russian panorama back in 2015, its expansion has been tracked by several CSIRTs and CERTs all across the world. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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BlackSquid malware uses multiple exploits to drop cryptocurrency miners

Security Affairs

“This malware, which we named BlackSquid after the registries created and main component file names, is particularly dangerous for several reasons.” “Simultaneous with its attacks, BlackSquid also downloads and executes two XMRig cryptocurrency-mining components.! ” states Trend Micro.

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