There’s a new malware roaming free online right now. It hijacks people’s social media accounts, steals login credentials, and mines cryptocurrencies using people’s devices, reports TechRadar.
New malware exploits users’ YouTube and Facebook account
The info comes from researchers from Bitdefender’s Advanced Threat Control Team (ATC), which found a new strain of malware named S1deload Stealer. The malware tries to avoid being detected by antivirus programs by using DLL sideloading. In the second half of 2022, malicious users were able to infect hundreds of users.
Bitdefender products detected more than 600 unique users infected with this malware between July and December 2022, Dávid Ács, a researcher from Bitdefender, stated.
