Symantec catches 8 apps on Microsoft Store that secretly mined for cryptocoin

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    Battery optimizer app logo and VPN+ app logo are misplaced. Why i did bother to point this out i have no idea.
     
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    bigfutus Master Guru

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    So in other words, Microsoft doesn't bother to run the apps even once.
     
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    Your m$ store is brought to you by the same people that have given you hits like the all present Windows Defender.


    You mean like their updates recently? :D
     

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    The main selling point of app stores is security. Without that, the MS store is more useless than it already is together with the limitations of UWP. Even Google Play/chrome store has these issues. Meh.
     
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    If it's at all like the crypto-mining virus/malware I picked up a few years ago, it is anything *but* silent, fortunately. I noticed it because of my GPU fans ramping up to full when I was web browsing. Chased down the symptoms on the Internet and found a very easy-to-execute removal remedy--on a Steam forum, believe it or not. It amounted only to a few simple file deletions--no 3rd-party AV software required in that case. Nuked it immediately, and never had trouble again. Never did know where I picked it up, though...that was the baffling thing. (the Microsoft store either didn't exist at the time, or I had not used it, can't recall which.)
     
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    so MS store is about as safe as google play store where they dont really test what is put up there to make sure it safe? or legal? I still refuse to use MS store and I never will.

    the only app store I use is apple store for tablet and phone, and only thing I really downloaded from that is FFBE and Gmail and there assorted office apps
     
  8. Yeah this stuff pains my ass been on it since utorrent got pwnd off years ago and now's crawling with mining among other clients... that was before the store came along...

    same with browser extensions, no coin etc
     
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    They most probably do. But how can you know whether it's malware or not just by running it? These things are usually remote controlled. They only start mining once they get the "go" signal from a server they connect to.
     
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    How youtube video downloader is even allowed on M$ store. If this doesn't scream malware, I don't know what is.
     

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    This is very ironic as the main advertisement of MS store is security. They even have a setting in win 10 that only allows apps to be installed from their store, as they are supposedly secure. Finding like this just means they do not bother with any security there and it makes the entire thing obsolete.
     

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