Criminals use trending TikTok challenge to make data-stealing malware invisible
Malware-slinging miscreants are taking advantage of a trending TikTok challenge — and viewers' dirty minds — to spread data-stealing malware via a phony app that's had more than one million views so far.
The new TikTok trend is called Invisible Challenge, and it involves a person filming themself naked while using an effect called Invisible Body that removes the body from the video. So instead of seeing actual skin, the viewers see a blurred, contour image., and as of Tuesday morning this tag has more than 27 million views. This level of popularity presents a perfect opportunity for cybercriminals, and they wasted no time jumping on the TikTok trend to deploy software nasties.
Soon after Invisible Challenge started trending, miscreants began posting TikTok videos with links to fake"unfilter" software that claims to remove the invisible filter and show the naked video creator, according to security researchers at Checkmarx. TikTok users posted videos with more than a million views promoting this phony app and urging viewers to join a Discord server,"discord.
The GitHub repo purports to be an open-source tool to remove the invisible body filter, but — surprise! — it contains malicious files: specifically a .bat script that installs a Python package listed in the requirements.txt file with aAfter tricking people into downloading the malware, the criminals have access to victims' devices, including Discord passwords and contacts, which they can then use to spoof the victim and scam their contacts.
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