MQL5 has a malware on its name now

I guess it's another sign of one's popularity. Kaspersky, one of world's leading antivirus software developers, has recently discovered a malware that tries to exploit the recently launched MQL5 Cloud Network. Since that network's purpose is to help test EA's for a fee, crooks thought it would be financially rewarding for them to try to manipulate it in their favor.

Kaspersky already identified this malware and christened it Trojan-Downloader.Win32.MQL5Miner.a. What this malware does once infecting the computer through download or email is identify whether the operating system is 32-bit or 64-bit and then downloads the relevant version of Metatrader 5 Strategy Tester Agent. The malware then launches the software and participates in the testing operations trying to earn fees as if it actually tests EA's. The malware then tries to transfer the fraudulently accumulated fee to crooks' bank account.

Needless to say this doesn't affect MT4 or MT5 in any way as they are not Cloud Cloud The cloud or cloud computing helps provides data and applications that can be accessed from nearly any location in the world so long as a stable Internet connection exists. Categorized into three cloud services, cloud computing is segmented into Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). In terms of trading, the versatility of the cloud service allows retail traders the ability to test out new trading strategies, backtest pre-existing conc The cloud or cloud computing helps provides data and applications that can be accessed from nearly any location in the world so long as a stable Internet connection exists. Categorized into three cloud services, cloud computing is segmented into Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). In terms of trading, the versatility of the cloud service allows retail traders the ability to test out new trading strategies, backtest pre-existing conc Read this Term based but just the MT5 Strategy Tester.

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