RedLine Info-Stealing Malware Spread by Folding@home Phishing

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/redline-info-stealing-malware-spread-by-folding-home-phishing/

A new phishing email is trying to take advantage of the Coronavirus pandemic and the race to develop medications by promoting a fake Folding@home app that installs an information-stealing malware.

Folding@home is a well-known distributed computing project that allows users to download software that uses CPU and GPU cycles to research new drug opportunities against diseases and a greater understanding of various diseases.

As the COVID-19 epidemic spreads throughout the world, Folding@home has added over 20 new projects focusing on coronavirus research and has seen a huge increase in usage by people all over the world.

Scammers take advantage of a good thing

With the rise in popularity of Folding@home, security researchers at ProofPoint have discovered a new phishing campaign that pretends to be from a company developing a cure for Coronavirus.

These emails have a subject of "Please help us with Fighting corona-virus" and state that they want you to help "speed up our process of finding the cure" by downloading and installing the Folding@home client.

Folding@home Phishing email​

 

[DDE_Server]

Really you can see people like devils in this world

 

[Antus67]

IMHO until this virus is contained and or eliminated I would move with extreme caution on trusting anything put on the web. I would call reputable numbers dealing with virus to obtain the proper information you need.