{"id":7015,"date":"2018-09-15T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=7015"},"modified":"2019-07-08T22:34:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T20:34:34","slug":"kodi-add-ons-linux-windows-infected-with-coin-iiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/09\/15\/kodi-add-ons-linux-windows-infected-with-coin-iiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodi Add-ons (Linux\/Windows) infected with coin iiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Schutz.jpg\" width=\"40\" align=\"left\" height=\"47\">Some unofficial repositories for the Kodi open source media player deliver cryptomining malware for Windows and Linux platforms in a modified add-on. Here are a few details.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The whole thing has been deteted by ESET security researchers, who have documented it on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/2018\/09\/13\/kodi-add-ons-launch-cryptomining-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We Live Security<\/a> blog. Kodie users may have noticed that a popular Dutch repository of third-party add-ons, XvBMC, was recently shut down for copyright infringement warnings. After the repository's shutdown on Github, ESET security researchers discovered that the repository was &#8211; probably unknowingly &#8211; part of a malicious cryptomining campaign dating back to December 2017. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bitcoins\" alt=\"Bitcoins\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/RNnVYPr.jpg\"><br \/>(Source: Pexels <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190624184313\/https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/gold-and-silver-bitcoins-730567\/\">David McBee<\/a> CC0 License)  <\/p>\n<p>It is the second publicly known case of malware spread on a large scale via Kodi add-ons, and the first publicly known cryptomining campaign launched via the Kodi platform. Interestingly, this campaign installs Linux- or Windows-specific binary files on the respective operating systems of Kodi victims. More details may be read at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/2018\/09\/13\/kodi-add-ons-launch-cryptomining-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We Live Security<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/malicious-kodi-add-ons-install-windows-and-linux-coin-mining-trojans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bleeping Computer<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some unofficial repositories for the Kodi open source media player deliver cryptomining malware for Windows and Linux platforms in a modified add-on. Here are a few details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-7015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}