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The Steel Fox malware is a crypto-miner and credit card information stealer that utilizes a technique called "Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver." This method allows the malware to gain system-level privileges on Windows machines by leveraging a vulnerability in a third-party driver. The irony is that this approach is reminiscent of the old-school software cracking techniques used to bypass digital rights management (DRM) in the early 2000s.
Back in the day, when software piracy was more prevalent, users would often turn to "crackers" - tools that could bypass the DRM and activate software without a valid license. These crackers would sometimes include malware, infecting the user's system with various threats in the process.