Google Bebeh CPU Miner
Posted: January 8, 2018
Threat Metric
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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
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Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 5/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 78 |
First Seen: | May 8, 2023 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Google Bebeh CPU Miner is not as simple as other CPU miners researchers have encountered in the past couple of months. Although this miner's primary purpose is to use the victim's CPU resources to mine for the Monero cryptocurrency, the Google Bebeh CPU Miner also might carry out other harmful operations whose purpose is to ensure that the Google Bebeh CPU Miner will spread to more people.
The fake file that delivers the Google Bebeh CPU Miner seems to be packed with a Trojan downloader whose purpose is to download a corrupted Google Chrome extension, which asks the victim to enter their login credentials. However, instead of hijacking the victims' Google account, the unsafe extension will proceed to use their existing Facebook Profile to send links to a fake ZIP archive silently, which contains the Trojan downloader and the Google Bebeh CPU Miner. Needless to say, anyone who gets tricked into downloading and launching the file will end up being infected with both of these threats, unless they are protected by a credible anti-malware application.
Having the Google Bebeh CPU Miner on your computer is likely to lead to loads of problems concerning your computer's health and performance. Due to the usage of an excessive amount of CPU resources, the Google Bebeh CPU Miner may cause other programs to work slowly, and may, in some cases, cause the CPU to overheat, therefore leading to system instability or other annoying issues.
If you notice the 'Google Bebeh' extension installed, then you need to run an anti-virus scanner to ensure the full removal of the unsafe Chrome extension, as well as the CPU miner that is known to accompany it immediately. Poor computer performance may sometimes be caused by threats like the Google Bebeh CPU Miner, so that's another symptom that should make you think about running an anti-virus tool.
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