Free malware with cracked software. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Guest Christopher Budd, Senior Global Threat Communications Manager at Avast, joins Dave to talk about some research his team did when they looked into a Reddit report saying their Avast folder was empty and other reports like it. The team found a new malware they’re calling “Crackonosh” in part because of some possible indications that the malware author may be Czech. Crackonosh is distributed along with illegal, cracked copies of popular software and searches for and disables many popular antivirus programs as part of its anti-detection and anti-forensics tactics. The research can be found here: Crackonosh: A New Malware Distributed in Cracked Software Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.7	Search your first call to discover how SRM can help your business. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWires Research Saturday.
1:27.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking
1:31.7	down threats and vulnerabilities, solving some of the hard problems of protecting
1:36.1	ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.
1:39.4	Thanks for joining us.
1:47.0	We started looking into this based on a Reddit post. Someone said that there, a vast folder was suddenly empty and they were wondering what was up with that.
1:56.0	We started looking into that and eventually when we finished pulling on that thread,
2:01.0	we found a malware that was distributing
2:05.0	XM rig and made and made for its
2:08.0	author of about $2 million in Manaro.
2:11.0	That's Christopher Bud. He's senior global threat communications
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