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title: Crypto Trading Platform Installs Backdoor to Mine Your Computer's Data
description: Cryptomining platform installs backdoor trojan to mine data. Cryptocurrency mining site allows attackers to exfiltrate data from your device.
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# [Crypto Trading Platform Installs Backdoor to Mine Your Computer's Data](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/crypto-trading-platform-installs-backdoor-to-mine-your-computers-data)

 Written by [SecureWorld News Team](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/author/secureworld-news-team) | Wed | Oct 16, 2019 | 2:43 PM Z

Talk about mining for gold. 

Security researchers say they detected an online company posing as a cryptocurrency mining platform for Mac or Windows PCs. The name is JMT Trader.

The company is a fake, according to the research, but the mining platform is real. And when you install it, the platform also installs a backdoor which allows attackers to exfiltrate data from your device.

*Bleeping Computer* has a good write-up on this crypto mining fake:

"When the JMT Trader is installed, though, the installer will also extract a secondary program called CrashReporter.exe and save it to the %AppData%\JMTTrader folder. This program is the malware component and acts as a backdoor. This malware currently has only 5/69 detections on VirusTotal.

A scheduled task called JMTCrashReporter will be created that launches the CrashReporter.exe every time a user logs into the computer."

That CrashReporter.exe then connects to a command and control server.

Researchers suspect North Korean cybercriminals could be behind this newly detected scheme.

[View full post](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/crypto-trading-platform-installs-backdoor-to-mine-your-computers-data)

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