{"id":39957,"date":"2021-04-01T15:04:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T12:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39957"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:57:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:57:59","slug":"hidden-miner-installer-found-in-call-of-duty-cheat-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/hidden-miner-installer-found-in-call-of-duty-cheat-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden-miner installer found in Call of Duty cheat code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call of Duty developers have found that one of Warzone&#8217;s popular cheats is malware and allows hackers to control victims&#8217; computers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/bvxwva\/activision-reveals-malware-disguised-as-call-of-duty-warzone-cheats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0430\u0435\u0442<\/a> Vice.<\/p>\n<p>The cheat installs Cod Dropper v0.1, which subsequently loads other malicious applications. One of the hackers&#8217; goals is to use gamers&#8217; powerful graphic processing units to mine cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSince the cheat code requires disabling antivirus software and granting high security privileges, it remains undetected anti-cheat software,\u201d Activision security researchers said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The program is distributed on hacker forums as a free, undetectable cheat that allegedly provides users with various advantages in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in March, operators of the Purple Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/purple-fox-botnet-acquires-worm-like-traits-to-disseminate-a-hidden-miner\">began hacking Windows devices<\/a> by brute-forcing the Server Message Block password to spread the hidden miner.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call of Duty developers have found that one of Warzone&#8217;s popular cheats is malware and allows hackers to control victims&#8217; computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1155],"class_list":["post-39957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-games-and-gamefi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39959,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39957\/revisions\/39959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}