Telegram messenger is one of the latest hack attacks that resulted in the spread of malware to mine cryptocurrency. Originally discovered in October of 2017 by Kaspersky Labs, cybercriminals tricked victims into downloading malicious malware onto their PCs that exploits their CPU power in order to mine ZCash and Monero.
According to Kaspersky Lab, the hackers used a hidden RLO Unicode character in the file name that reversed the order of the characters, thus renaming the file itself, and send it to Telegram messenger users. In this zero-day vulnerability, users who downloaded the malware, provided unnoticed, remote, computer access to hackers who then infected the victim’s computers with additional malicious softwares.
Although it wasn’t reported, we can assume in a scenario similar to Telegram Messenger’s hack that post breach spendings can include the following: data breach attorneys, computer forensic experts, and PR consultants, all billing at an hourly rate.
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