Trend Micro Inc. , a Japanese multinational cyber security company founded in Los Angeles, published a report yesterday, stating that the company found a new cryptocurrency-mining bot spreading through Facebook Messenger.
Digmine, as it was called, appears in the chat as not a built-in video file. When the user activates the file, the so-called video downloads components from a remote server to install the Chrome extension. Then the extension uses personal Facebook data to send it to friends of the user.
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