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Cybercriminals abused GitHub, YouTube and VirusTotal to push crypto-stealing malware


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A cryptocurrency-stealing malware campaign used inflated GitHub activity, software reviews, YouTube tutorials and favorable VirusTotal comments to make malicious trading and …

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