{"id":228023,"date":"2025-12-30T02:21:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/hacker-arrested-for-kmsauto-malware-campaign-with-2-8-million-downloads"},"modified":"2025-12-30T02:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:21:19","slug":"hacker-arrested-for-kmsauto-malware-campaign-with-2-8-million-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/hacker-arrested-for-kmsauto-malware-campaign-with-2-8-million-downloads","title":{"rendered":"Hacker arrested for KMSAuto malware campaign with 2.8 million downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hacker-arrested-for-kmsauto-malware-campaign-with-2-8-million-downloads2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Lithuanian national has been arrested for his alleged involvement in infecting 2.8 million systems with clipboard-stealing malware disguised as the KMSAuto tool for illegally activating Windows and Office software.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old man was extradited from Georgia to South Korea following a related request under Interpol\u2019s coordination.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Korean National Police Agency, the suspect used KMSAuto to lure victims into downloading a malicious executable that scanned the clipboard for cryptocurrency addresses and replaced them with ones controlled by the attacker \u2014 known as \u2018clipper malware\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lithuanian national has been arrested for his alleged involvement in infecting 2.8 million systems with clipboard-stealing malware disguised as the KMSAuto tool for illegally activating Windows and Office software. The 29-year-old man was extradited from Georgia to South Korea following a related request under Interpol\u2019s coordination. According to the Korean National Police Agency, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}