This infamous malware accidentally tattles on its own creators

Developers of the infamous TrickBot banking trojan have accidentally coded in a feature that alerts infected users to its presence on their device.

Traditionally, TrickBot malware is distributed via phishing campaigns and operates stealthily on an infected machine, scraping credentials, stealing from cryptocurrency wallets and opening the door to secondary attacks.

checks the victim’s screen resolution to determine whether it is running in a virtual machine, allowing operators to hinder the attempts of researchers to analyze the malware.

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