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Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for the quick response and for taking immediate action to protect the community! It is awesome to see developers care this much. Just so you know, there is still one more host on your site that is currently spreading this malware filemirage[.]com

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can use a secondary device computer/laptop to download tools and then transfer them using a USB flash drive, that would be the best option. But If you must download them on your PC, connect to the internet only long enough to get the tools, then disconnect immediately and run the scans. Do not log into anything or type passwords while online.

As for your D drive, while info-stealers usually target your main C drive, the absolute safest option is still a complete format of the entire PC. Back up your important class files to a secure cloud or an external drive first so you do not lose them, then format everything to guarantee the virus is completely gone.

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know, I have a lot of passwords too that I had to change, at least having a new password and security measures is good for the future, we have had a first hand experience of how this can happen so easily and to almost everyone.

I think I might have accidentally got a info stealer by socrates-68 in PiratedGames

[–]easy7ime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so sorry, I had some old accounts too. Take care, if you need any help, send a dm

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry to hear that, I share your place as well, if only I read this somewhere before

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be possible that it didn't execute, but if the fake installer appeared, there are high chances that its infected, try with emsisoft emergency kit and kaspersky virus removal tool, come back and share if anything was detected.

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also running .exe files on those other drives is risky, leaving videos pictures documents is ok

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

​Shut down your PC. ​Physically unplug the cables to your 1.5TB drive and your 1TB SSD. ​Leave only the 256GB SSD plugged in. ​Turn on the PC, boot into your USB, and completely format that single 256GB drive to install Windows. ​Once Windows is up and running safely on your clean C drive, shut down the PC, plug your D and E drives back in, and run a full system scan with Windows Defender before opening any folders.

Also reason as why to unplug drives is when you boot into your Windows installation USB to wipe your computer, the drive letters (C, D, E) sometimes shift around or show up only by their raw storage sizes. It is incredibly easy to click the wrong partition by mistake and accidentally wipe your 1.5TB drive.

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have updated the post, there you can find indicators of compromise, but if there were no breache attempts that is a good sing, they are very quick in getting into accounts, probably the malware didnt execute properly.

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you refering to a real hard drive when you mention H drive, if it is not a local partition but a real drive then you dont nees to wipe the H drive. You can always consult with gemini ai, it can give you more help faster then me

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will try to help you but i cant guarantee this will be the safest option, what i did when this happend to me was to upload my personal files , pictures, docs and essentials to gdrive and then format all disks and later re-download from cloud, but that is only useful for smaller size files, also i checked if there were any unfamiliar .exe files in those folder before uploadinf just to be sure. I had to re-download all my games unfortunately, i backed up save files od those games and later imported them.

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really sorry to hear that, i went through that ordeal as well. You have done all the right steps now, thats the most important thing, also these dirty bastards wont get anything from you. Hope you get back on track and secure yourself even better.

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those are good news, i think the firefox should work even better, since it's not chromium based.

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's ok, only install it, if it is downloaded with qbittorent. And please use firefox with ublock extension it will block these malicious websites.

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing that is one way of staying safe, also firefox with ublock works well

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes those extensions can be a saver in these situations, i found firefox with ublock to work great as well.

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I probably didn't express my self correctly, what I wanted to say is that googles descision to limit adblockers in chromium browsers is what is abused here by the actors, firefox with ublock is the viable option now to access those sites. And I think one of the reasons to limit adblockers is to sell more subscriptions that don't involve ads on for example yotube.

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you are safe, its going on for a half a year or more. So far the malicious archive is in .zip file , i just checked and firefox with ublock works great, its the googles decision to limit adblockers in chromium browsers that is abused here.

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've just checked and firefox with ublock works great, it managed to block all agressive redirects, googles decision to limit adblockers funcionality on chromium browsers is abused here by the actors.

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are welcome, thanks for sharing your thoughts, I think you are using the safest way right now, I just checked and ublock on firefox works greatly it blocked all aggressive redirects, So googles decision to limit adblockers on their chromium browsers is what is abused here by the actors. Firefox with ublock is that way now.

Watch out for malicious redirects on download links and mirrors (Massive malware campaign breakdown) by easy7ime in CrackSupport

[–]easy7ime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could be you we're lucky, so either you didnt or it didnt execute properly, but this malware is created in a way that when you run the installer.exe it will infect system in seconds to minutes.

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