March 29, 2023 By Bill Toulas
A surge of trojanized Tor Browser installers targets Russians and Eastern Europeans with clipboard-hijacking malware that steals infected users' cryptocurrency transactions.
Kaspersky analysts warn that while this attack is not new or particularly creative, it's still effective and prevalent, infecting many users worldwide.
While these malicious Tor installers target countries worldwide, Kaspersky says that most are targeting Russia and Eastern Europe.
"We relate this to the ban of Tor Project's website in Russia at the end of 2021, which was reported by the Tor Project itself," explains Kaspersky.
"According to the latter, Russia was the second largest country by number of Tor users in 2021 (with over 300,000 daily users, or 15% of all Tor users)."
