Dangerous Malware being spread all over Reddit - TradingView Premium Scam

Everybody be careful there is a huge scam spreading on Reddit. You might have seen it already, there are cracked TradingView Premium links getting posted on a bunch of different subreddits. It sends you to a link with a downloadable zip file with a TradingView.exe file.

My dumbass downloaded the file and ran it despite windows screaming at me that it couldn’t be trusted. The exe runs and it shows some kind of fake error.

The comments on all of these posts look legit. The comments are discussions about different trading indicators or if there have been any viruses found. All of them say “safe to download” or “I have been using it fine” or something along those lines. There are tons of deleted comments. Any mention of scam or virus gets deleted. The comments look legit because they are all LEGIT Reddit accounts with years of history that have been hijacked by the scam.

It seems the program steals your credentials. They hijack your Reddit account and continue spreading the virus and the fake comments using real accounts. It’s usually easy to tell if a Reddit account is a bot based on the history but this is so effective because they steal legit accounts of real people. Some of the accounts they steal are moderator accounts that go and post as mods on subreddits so it looks even more legit, and then as mods they delete comments at will.

I was able to recover my account before they took it over completely. I don’t know if they can crack any other accounts on your system but I changed all of my passwords and re-installed windows as precaution. I don’t know how to get the posts taken down because the mods are compromised! Who do I report this to? I can’t find any kind of actual Reddit help about something like this.