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Default Fake Spectre-Meltdown patch infects your computer with more malware

Fake Spectre-Meltdown patch infects your computer with more malware

Just what we all need right now... GRRRR!



The biggest news out of the tech world this month has been the discovery of these massive chip vulnerabilities that affect almost every computer, smartphone, tablet and laptop that utilizes a modern processor from manufacturers like Intel, AMD and ARM.

The security issues, known as Meltdown and Spectre, are probably the worst bugs ever found in processor design and they might fundamentally change how chips will be designed, once we move forward.

There's been enough warnings about how hackers will inevitably use these flaws to their advantage. Capitalizing on the fears generated by these unprecedented security issues, cybercriminals are now launching social engineering scams aimed to exploit the public hysteria surrounding the chip flaws.

It's a smokescreen!

Have you ever heard of malware called Smoke Loader? It's a malicious program that is used to download and install more malware on a victim's computer. If you are unfortunate enough to have Smoke Loader installed in your gadget, it will spring up a Pandora's box of malware nasties, from annoying adware to the more nefarious types such as spyware or data miners.

Sounds bad enough, right? Well, it appears that the bad guys are currently disguising Smoke Loader as a security patch for the Spectre and Meltdown chip bugs, hoping to dupe people into inadvertently installing it.

Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes first spotted the masquerading malware on a phishing website claiming to be an arm of the German Federal Office Information Security (BSI). This rogue website tries its absolute best to look official; it even has HTTPS enabled and an SSL security certificate to boot.



Upon landing on the fraudulent site, an unsuspecting visitor is greeted with advice and information about the effects of the Spectre and Meltdown bugs. Lurking within one of its "helpful" links is a ZIP file containing a patch called "Intel-AMD-SecurityPatch-10-1-v1.exe." Don't let that self-important file name fool you - it's actually the Smoke Loader installer made incognito!

If you fall for it and install the "patch," Smoke Loader gets loaded on your computer and starts contacting Russian-hosted domains for additional malware to install.

Malwarebytes also stated that the fake patch is related to another common source of software deception - the infamous fake Adobe Flash Player update.

Thankfully. Malwarebytes have already contacted Comodo and Cloudflare about the fake site and it is no longer reachable as of this writing.

Main takeaways

Issuing fake updates and software is a widely used tactic by cybercriminals to get people to install malware unwittingly so be extra vigilant against software that you download straight off the web.

As evidenced by this deceptive Smoke Loader downloader, even the presence of the HTTPS lock and a valid SSL certificate will not guarantee that a website is safe, so don't rely on them for your protection. In fact, cybercriminals are increasingly using HTTPS for their phishing websites.

Keep in mind that HTTPS and a valid SSL certificate simply mean that the traffic between your computer and the website is secure but it does not mean that the website itself is safe.

Windows chip flaw patch is crashing some PCs

And it's not just fake chip flaw patches that should worry Windows users. Even the official Windows 10 patch is reportedly crashing PCs, making them unbootable.

https://www.komando.com/happening-now/438166/fake-spectre-meltdown-patch-infects-your-computer-with-more-malware
Intel, AMD and ARM are not the only chips, now Nvidia is added to the list.

Nvidia became the latest chipmaker to release software patches for the Spectre microchip security threat, indicating that the chipset flaw was affecting graphic processors as well as CPUs.

http://fortune.com/2018/01/10/nvidia-chips-flaw-security-meltdown-spectre-patch/
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