Hello and welcome to the Thursday, February 20th, 2020-5 edition of the Sands Internet Storm Centers.

Stormcast, my name is Johannes Ulrich, and today I'm recording from Jacksonville, Florida.

If you're into gaming, then you probably are somewhat familiar with the cat and mouse game between

cheaters in online games and software trying to prevent cheating in these online games.

Now, the tricky part here is that quite often software that claims to allow you to bypass some of these cheat protections

actually turns out to be malware.

And Xavier ran into a case like that.

He did find a particular piece of software that called itself Exing code unblocker.

2025, Xing code is one of these anti-cheat softwares.

So this apparently tries to unblock the anti-cheat software.

At least, that's what it claims to do.

However, what sort of attracted Xavier's attention was not the cheating part here or the anti-cheating part,

but instead that these executables had PowerShell code enabled, embedded in the code, and that of course, well, looked very much like Mal malware, which it then turned out to be.

X-Form is what Xavier identified it as interesting obfuscation technique,

and I think Xavier is still looking for some help here to really identify everything that's happening here with this particular malware. There are links

to the virus total copies of the malware in the diary. Well, and then we got some interesting

news from Microsoft today regarding some real breakthrough advances when it comes to quantum computing. Of course,

that's always one thing to watch everybody is sort of afraid of. When do we have to switch

to quantum safe ciphers from a security point of view? And this is sort of one of those

breakthroughs that may significantly accelerate that deadline.

So definitely something to worry about and to watch.

Microsoft calls this new essentially processor that they developed the Myerana One chip.

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