False patches of meltdown and specter appear with malware according to malwarebytes
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A Malwarebytes report points to the appearance of false patches for Meltdown and Specter, which in reality what they do is install various types of malware on the computers of users who are fooled.
Malwarebytes detects false security patches
It seems that we are going to continue talking about Meltdown and Specter for a season, the security company Malwarebytes has detected an alleged website, which offers solutions for these vulnerabilities in the form of patches for the operating system. What this page does is direct users to the federal cybersecurity office of the German government, once there a file “Intel-AMD-SecurityPatch-11-01bsi.zip” is downloaded.
This file is supposedly a security patch to protect users, nothing is further from reality, because it is actually a malware known as Smoke Loader, a tool that is responsible for stealing users information related to payments on the network. This malware connects to various web domains to which it sends encrypted information about user data.
We take advantage of this to remind our readers to install security updates only from official channels, that is, from Windows Update and from the websites of the motherboard manufacturers that offer us new BIOS continuously.
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