Crims defeat human intelligence with fake AI installers they poison with ransomware

Criminals are using installers for fake AI software to distribute ransomware and other destructive malware. Cisco Talos recently uncovered three of these threats, which use legit-looking websites whose domain names vary the titles of actual AI vendors by just a letter or two. The software installers on the sites are poisoned …

[Anonymous Coward]

So only the sucker who think AI is the next comming of Jesus will fall for it?

By all means, let them.

[Ken Hagan]

Only they will fall for it, but the consequences may then hit everyone else who works for the same company.

[simonlb]

"a never-before-seen malware named “Numero” that breaks Windows machines"

That's not really a high bar though is it? Even normal Windows updates regularly do that.

[Pascal Monett]

You do not use AI

AI uses you.

[Missing Semicolon]

There appears to be novaleadaipro.com as well now.

To be fair, the "official" novaleads.app domain looks pretty scammy too.

[Anonymous Coward]

... and "novaleads.ai" (that seems legit if a bit empty with js disabled -- click at your own risk?) that is quite reminiscent of the malware's "novaleadsai.com".

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, it's hard to be sympathetic towards spammers that get themselves infected with malware.

Maybe this could be actually a good solution to the spam problem. Write the best spamming software ever, release it for free, then when it becomes popular, trigger a fork bomb that exponentially signs the users up for cloud services and DOSes their local machines.