Malicious Software Removal Tool August - Lecpetex

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This month we added Win32/Lecpetex to the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT).

The addition will assist with the detection and clean-up of this family following the recent Facebook take-down of the Lecpetex botnet. The graph below shows the number of unique machine encounters we have seen since February this year.





The primary Lecpetex payload is a Litecoin miner that is installed to the infected system. A malicious hacker can then use the compromised PC to generate Litecoins.

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