How do file partner programs work?

It's easy to notice if you've fallen victim to an advertising partner program: the system has new apps that you didn't install, ad pages spontaneously open in the browser, ads appear on sites where they never used to, and so on. If you notice these symptoms on your computer, and in the list of...

A week in security (July 23 – July 29)

Last week on Labs, we looked at an adware called MobiDash getting stealthy, a new strain of Mac malware called Proton that was found after two years, and the ‘Hidden Bee’ miner that was delivered via an improved drive-by download toolkit. We also delved into the security improvements expected in...

‘Hidden Bee’ miner delivered via improved drive-by download toolkit

This blog post was authored by @hasherezade and Jérôme Segura. We recently detected a drive-by download attack trying to exploit CVE-2018-4878, a vulnerability in Flash Player, in a sequence that was not matching any of the exploit kit patterns that we currently track. Upon investigation, we...

Mobile Menace Monday: Adware MobiDash gets stealthy

The Adware known as MobiDash, detected by Malwarebytes for Android as Android/Adware.MobiDash, is far from a new. However, this ad-displaying nuisance now comes with some additional stealth features. First appearing last spring, these new features are not limited to a single variant of MobiDash...

Newsmaker Interview: Patrick Wardle Talks Apple Malware Flubs and Successes

Patrick Wardle is the chief research officer at Digita Security and founder of Mac security company Objective-See. For years, the self-described “surfer from Hawaii” has been one of the most prolific and respected Mac malware-hunters, uncovering vulnerabilities affecting the macOS platform as wel...

Beware! Fortnite Cheat Hijacks Gamers' PCs to Intercept HTTPS Traffic

If you are looking for Fortnite v-bucks generator, aimbot or any other game cheats—then beware—you might end up installing malware on your PC! Web-based game-streaming platform Rainway is reporting that tens of thousands of Fortnite players have inadvertently infected their systems with a piece o...

Beware! Fortnite Cheat Hijacks Gamers' PCs to Intercept HTTPS Traffic

If you are looking for Fortnite v-bucks generator, aimbot or any other game cheats—then beware—you might end up installing malware on your PC! Web-based game-streaming platform Rainway is reporting that tens of thousands of Fortnite players have inadvertently infected their systems with a piece o...

World Cup 2018: malware attacks gunning for goal

World Cup 2018 is upon us and in full swing, bringing together 32 nations for a month of footballing to see who'll be crowned World Champion. With the tournament underway, we thought it'd be fun to see which of the footballing powerhouses also expended a similar amount of energy fighting off...

PBot adware spams ads & installs cryptominer on Windows PCs

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Kaspersky have discovered an adware This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: PBot adware spams ads & installs cryptominer on Windows PCs...

Python-Based Adware Evolves to Install Malicious Browser Extensions

Security researchers have been warning of a few newly detected variants of python-based adware that are being distributed in the wild not only to inject ads but also found installing malicious browser extensions and hidden cryptocurrency miner into victims' computers. Dubbed PBot , or PythonBot ,...

Python-Based Adware Evolves to Install Malicious Browser Extensions

Security researchers have been warning of a few newly detected variants of python-based adware that are being distributed in the wild not only to inject ads but also found installing malicious browser extensions and hidden cryptocurrency miner into victims' computers. Dubbed PBot, or PythonBot, t...

Pbot: evolving adware

The adware PBot PythonBot got its name because its core modules are written in Python. It was more than a year ago that we detected the first member of this family. Since then, we have encountered several modifications of the program, one of which went beyond adware by installing and running a...

This Week in Security News: ePrivacy and Hack Back

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, the Council of the European Union reviewed a bill dubbed the “ePrivacy” Regulation, which targets message-sharing services like WhatsApp and...

A week in security (May 7 – May 13)

Last week on Labs, we looked at the case of a fake Android AV, an annoying adware that goes by the name of Kuik, the return of threat actors behind the Shopper Stop tech scam, a new Netflix phishing scam, the recent zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer, and the insufficiency of merely...

Kuik: a simple yet annoying piece of adware

Some pieces of malware can be so simple—and yet such a pain to get rid of—especially when they start interfering with your system's configuration. This much is true for the Kuik adware program, which surprised us all by forcing affected machines to join a domain controller. The perpetrators are...

Threat Roundup for April 20-27

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between April 20 and 27. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

The New Mobile Threat Landscape, circa 2017 to 2018

Submitted by Ian Grutze If mobile threats diversified and expanded in 2016, they matured in 2017. Mobile ransomware continued to rear its head, burgeoning into the platform’s most prevalent threat. Simple screen lockers, for instance, evolved into file-encrypting malware, some of which even seeme...

New Crossrider variant installs configuration profiles on Macs

A new variant of the Crossrider adware has been spotted that is infecting Macs in a unique way. For the most part, this variant is still quite ordinary, doing some of the same old things that we've been seeing for years in Mac adware. However, the use of a configuration profile introduces a uniqu...

A week in security (April 16 – April 22)

Last week, we took a stroll down memory lane talking about Facebook and MySpace, noticed a change in the Magnitude exploit kit—wherein it started adopting the GandCrab ransomware, took a good look at a new form of adware that is based on Python, chatted a bit about Russian hacking with a...

PBot: a Python-based adware

Recently, we came across a Python-based sample dropped by an exploit kit. Although it arrives under the disguise of a MinerBlocker, it has nothing in common with miners. In fact, it seems to be PBot/PythonBot: a Python-based adware. Apart from a couple of posts on forums in Russian language and...