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New Idea of Spreading Malware- This Time it is the PDF Form of ‘Fire and Fury’

 

Fire and Fury havebecome very popular online, in the previous few weeks and now it has managed to draw criminal activity as well. The Donald Trump administrationmay have turned into a Twitterincline for its shockingclaims, however the criminal group is observing it as if another tendency to disperse malware through, and as Michael Wolff's told all book.

 

Fire and Fury's free e-book edition are carrying out the rounds dropping virus. Security firm of Russia, Kaspersky Lab's analyst first uncovered the issue - the organization unexpectedly turned into a target of Donald Trump's administration a couple of months back. The malicious PDF edition has 230 pages rather than 328in the official in the official edition, reported by Daily Beast later. But, there can be copies having each and every page of the book and yet dropping virus as per the upload on wccftech.com dated 22/01/2018.

 

It's interesting that the revelation of the malware originated from an analyst with Kaspersky Labs. The cybersecurity firm headquarter of Russia has recently confronted allegation regarding connection with intelligence service of Russia. As per the report by U.S. intelligence, that organization manipulated the U.S. voting system and news online that seem they are strongly encouraging of Trump's candidacy. Recently the U.S. government restricted the utilization of Kaspersky products by its organization.

 

Old tips are always true - don't download anything from unidentified source or access URL in suspicious emails. The malicious copy of Fire and Fury are spreading over the web and is being downloaded via torrent sites or outsider channels, not through the authentic stores like Apple Book and Amazon.

 

Various antivirus software is identifying malware being dispersed via Fire and Fury. But, it could be ideal if the PDF file is not opened, in case some share an exciting note in the email, attempting to draw you to open the file attached.

 

To avoid becoming a hacker's toy, the reader should only stick to the authentic e-book edition of Fire and Fury, as the Amazon or different retailers sell it. Torrent websites are offering pirated material which infected more than 12 million users per month with this malware.

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