Beware of Fake Spectre and Meltdown Patches Pushing Malware – Smoke Loader

Crooks trying to take advantage of the infamous bug Meltdown and Spectre which affects almost all the modern processors and pushes Smoke Loader malware as a patch.

Security researchers from Malwarebytes spotted a phishing campaign targetted German users appears to come from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).

The malicious site consists of a zip file Intel-AMD-SecurityPatch-11-01bsi.zip which consist of the malware file Intel-AMD-SecurityPatch-10-1-v1.exe.

Once the malicious file is executed users will infect themselves with Smoke Loader and it downloads additional malware, it posts infection is encrypted and attempting to connect with various domains. Malware published technical analysis report.

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