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What happened: User is sharing and encouraging people to download a file containing malware claiming it's a trading bot

Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1967920

ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3218780.
[Archived]: http://archive.is/phikj

Website: https://github.com/CryptoProfitTeam/tradelab
[Archived]: http://archive.is/nDbaU

Virustotal had 25 Engines detect the so called bot as malware

https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/f62cbe39ba844361f08f91edf59ca8c098d4a85218cf84f67880616d9ef743e4/detection

https://i.imgur.com/eKCDe8f.png

Additional Notes
The github profile which is hosting the file; https://github.com/CryptoProfitTeam, is only 5 days old.

The user even woke up after along period of inactivity

https://i.imgur.com/DqU3OYc.png

Can we have atleast one DT member look into this and tag the culprit before the damage is done?  ;)

Painted red ;)

It’s done.

Github repo and entire account look like they have been removed as well... nice work ;)

Great find. Can't believe though that it took over a year for someone to finally notice.  :-\

Always verify with multiple sources what you are downloading onto your computer. And if a user is offering such software for free and posting public links it's probably nothing good. Think about it, the scammer's posting it in public to make a profit, and can only do so because of people downloading will be paying the price. So common sense alone tells us that either the software contains viruses, or will do something malicious with your exchange account.

Remember that legitimate trading bots are sold at a price, not offered for free. And always take what users without reputation is offering with a huge grain of salt, especially newbies that are offering some sort of get rich quick method. There is no such thing.

Yep, I was also surprised that nobody who responded to the thread ever bothered to check the file let alone verify the sources of the file. All they made were replies and kept bumping the scammers thread which could have easily picked up the attention of a clueless victim.
This shows you how vulnerable people continue to be in this community so whenever I see search a thing, first step is to warn people and hopefully a couple of them learn.