{"id":16585,"date":"2019-10-14T10:52:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T18:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/10\/14\/news-10324\/"},"modified":"2019-10-14T10:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T18:52:17","slug":"news-10324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/10\/14\/news-10324\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of malware responsible for sextortion spam that mines for Monero on the side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reason Cybersecurity<\/em> was one of the Platinum partners of <a title=\"VB2019\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/conference\/vb2019\/\">VB2019<\/a>. After a guest <a title=\"Guest blog: Threat intelligence \u2013 a unifying force of the future\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/guest-blog-threat-intelligence-unifying-force-future\/\">blog post<\/a> published earlier this month, their <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.reasonsecurity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">researchers <\/a>have written an analysis of malware they call &#8216;Save Yourself&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reasonsecurity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/files\/cache\/8ad734a0f6465af889e4cfd20203aa58_f3408.png\" alt=\"Platinum-reason.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>The malware is responsible for sending a large number of spam emails part of a sextortion campaign, where the goal is to trick the recipient into believing their computer has been infected and that their porn-browsing details will be published unless they pay an extortion fee. The malware also mines for the Monero cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the article in both <a title=\"Guest article: Threat analysis report Save Yourself malware\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/virusbulletin\/2019\/10\/guest-article-threat-analysis-report-save-yourself-malware\/\">HTML<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/uploads\/pdf\/magazine\/2019\/201910-Reason-Save-Yourself-Malware.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF <\/a>format.<\/p>\n<p>outertext<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/analysis-malware-responsible-sextortion-spam-mines-monero-side\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/files\/cache\/8ad734a0f6465af889e4cfd20203aa58_f3408.png\"\/><br \/>                                 VB2019 Platinum partner Reason Cybersecurity presents a threat analysis report on the Save Yourself malware.                 <\/p>\n<p>                 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/analysis-malware-responsible-sextortion-spam-mines-monero-side\/\">Read more<\/a>                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[23177,10378,23176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine","category-security","category-virusbulletin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}