Spoofed MSI Afterburner Sites Are Hosting Altered Versions of the Popular Utility Infected with Crypto-Mining Malware

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Cybersecurity specialists at Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs have discovered that the infected software contains code for crypto-mining.

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[Zarathustra]

This does not surprise me.

Throughout its run as a popular GPU tuning software, it has for whatever reason always been a little tricky to find the actual official MSI download page.

It was only a matter of time before some scum decided to take advantage of that.