New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour makes money by using victims machines.

New Skype Malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour makes money by using victims machines.

A new piece of malware propagating across Skype has been discovered that tries to convince the recipient to click on a link. What makes this particular threat different is that it drops a Bitcoin miner application to make the malware author money.

Security Lab Kaspersky discovered the threat, which it names Trojan.Win32.Jorik.IRCbot.xkt, on Thursday night. At the time, most of the potential victims were from Italy, Russia, Poland, Costa Rica, Spain, Germany, and Ukraine, with the average clicking rate hitting 2,000 clicks per hour.

The initial trojan is downloaded from a server located in India, and many anti-malware programs as measured by VirusTotal don’t detect it. Once the machine is infected, the trojan drops multiple other pieces of malware, using Hotfile to grab the bits and also connecting to a server located in Germany for further instructions. Its quit cleverly coded but there is one really huge bug in code that it slow down computer by using whole CUP.

To avoid this threat and others like it, don’t click on random links you receive on Skype. You’ll be doing yourself a favor, helping stop the spread of malware, and ensuring criminals get a smaller pay day.

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Categories: Malware , Skype