A fictitious Ethereum mining patch for Nvidia GPUs was in fact malware

A fictitious Ethereum mining patch for Nvidia GPUs was in fact malware

 

Notably, Tom’s Hardware reports that the utility does not even execute its intended job of removing the GPU’s hash rate cap. Rather than that, it appears to infect your system and trigger a slew of other strange behaviours, such as increased CPU utilisation, looking for system discs, and other things that should have raised some red lights – and did. The magazine directs visitors to Joe’s SandBox Cloud, an interesting website that demonstrates how a dangerous programme spreads throughout a system after installation.