Technology
Fake AI apps used in campaign to mine cryptocurrency
Scammers use SEO techniques to promote fake tools based on ChatGPT and Claude, infecting computers with clandestine mining malware.
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The essentials of this story
- What happened
- Criminals use fake AI apps to infect computers and mine cryptocurrency.
- Who is affected
- Users searching for artificial intelligence tools on the internet.
- What changes
- Infected computers have their processing resources and power consumed secretly to generate cryptocurrency.
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