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Fake Spectre and Meltdown patch pushes Smoke Loader malware

German authorities recently warned about phishing emails trying to take advantage of the Meltdown and Spectre flaws. The same fraudulent domain has a link to a ZIP archive containing the so-called patch (Intel-AMD-SecurityPatch-11-01bsi.zip) It really is a piece of malware, which can retrieve additional payloads. The site is not affiliated with any legitimate or official government entity. It appears to come from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), this SSL-enabled phishing site.”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2018/01/fake-spectre-and-meltdown-patch-pushes-smoke-loader/

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