Although 2021 is already in the yard, people still believe that you can download a free program from the Internet, which, as if by magic, will bring them benefits in the form of likes, money or some other benefit.
Of course, human naivety continues to be exploited by criminals who create fake hacking tools, cheats for popular games and other fake software whose real purpose is to steal other people's credentials.
Bleeping Computer founder and cybersecurity researcher Lawrence Abrams collected and described in an article several examples of such "tools" that supposedly allow you to cheat PayPal, Facebook, CamFrog, as well as cheat in Apex Legends and Roblox.
I note that all the examples described by the researcher are dated 2019 (mainly in March-April of the current year), that is, the fakes are quite fresh, and there is still a demand for such "utilities", which is satisfied by the scammers.
PayPal
A fake PayPal hack utility was discovered by MalwareHunterTeam at the end of last week. The advertisement for this tool says that using it allows you to fund your PayPal account with money. Is free. That is, literally getting money out of thin air. In order for the tool to work, the user is asked to enter a username, password, select a country, currency, as well as the desired amount to replenish the account.
After filling in all the required fields, the program simulates the work, pretending that funds were received on the victim's account.
As you might guess, in fact, the user does not receive any money, but his credentials are transmitted to the email address of the attackers.
Facebook
Another utility, also found by MalwareHunterTeam, offers users not free money, but boosting Facebook likes. According to the advertisement, using this program, you can assign an arbitrary number of likes to any post on the social network. True, for this, the user, of course, will need to enter credentials from his account, as well as the URL of the image that needs to be clicked.
Immediately after clicking the "generate likes" button, the victim's login and password are sent to the attackers' server. And no likes.
Apex legends
Since scammers closely follow all trends, popular computer games do not escape their attention either. A striking example - Fortnite, which users often become the target of hackers.With a new, hugely popular battle royale now emerging, Apex Legends, the criminals certainly didn't miss the opportunity to take advantage of it. Lawrence Abrams talks about a program that supposedly allows cheating in Apex Legends.
In fact, when you run this "cheat" in C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Microsoft Zpaxhu, the Mesyeas.exe file is extracted and executed. It is a remote access Trojan that intercepts and records all keystrokes and then sends them to its operators.
Roblox
The creators of various adware bundles are constantly flooding the Internet with countless fake game cheats, software cracks and hacking tools. These downloaders are distributed through numerous hacked and fake sites, and often the participants in such campaigns receive a small commission for each install.As an example, Abram cites a fake utility for hacking Roblox accounts for free. After its launch, not a hacker utility will be installed on the user's machine, but various undesirable software. For example, AnonymizerGadget, G-Cleaner and SeeScenicElf.
The expert reminds that often among such unwanted programs there are real malware - clickers, miners, Trojans that steal information, and so on.
Wi-Fi
A fake Wi-Fi hack program can bring a lot of headaches to anyone who decides to use it.After launching this "utility", the user sees the usual message about the need to install .NET, that is, the program allegedly does not work. In fact, at this time, the Jigsaw ransomware starts working on the victim's machine, which will soon encrypt the data of the unlucky kiddie script and demand a ransom.
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