Mac malware intercepts encrypted web traffic for ad injection

Last week, Malwarebytes researcher Adam Thomas found an interesting new piece of Mac malware that exhibits some troubling behaviors, including intercepting encrypted web traffic to inject ads. Let's take a closer look at this adware, which Malwarebytes for Mac detects as OSX.SearchAwesome, to see...

Someone Hijacks A Popular Chrome Extension to Push Malware

Phishers have recently hacked an extension for Google Chrome after compromising the Chrome Web Store account of German developer team a9t9 software and abused to distribute spam messages to unsuspecting users. Dubbed Copyfish, the extension allows users to extract text from images, PDF documents...

MSRT December 2016 addresses Clodaconas, which serves unsolicited ads through DNS hijacking

In this month’s Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool MSRT release, we continue taking down unwanted software, the pesky threats that force onto our computers things that we neither want nor need. BrowserModifier:Win32/Clodaconas, for instance, displays ads when you’re browsing the internet. ...

Mac Adware 'OSX.Pirrit' Unleashes Ad Overload, For Now

Researchers discovered a Mac OS X variant of the Windows-based Pirrit adware that creates a proxy server on infected Mac computers and injects ads into webpages. According to researchers at Boston-based Cybereason Labs, the adware, dubbed OSX.Pirrit, is mostly benign, serving up just ads, but has...

Microsoft Blocking Potentially Unwanted Programs

Microsoft has taken steps to address deceptive software, otherwise known as potentially unwanted programs or applications, with new opt-in protections for Windows users in the enterprise. The new protection blocks behaviors such as ad-injection, or the bundling of nuisance programs with software...

Mail.ru: XSS in ad.mail.ru

The XSS vulnerability is located here: https://ad.mail.ru/adi/3030 and is triggered by setting referer to: "alert0 The problem is that the referer is being loaded like so: html alert0 " I am aware that this is out of scope, but I am still reporting it since I just happened to spot it while lookin...

China railcom broadband ad delivery system there are serious security issues-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recent Iron through the malicious insertion of advertising to engage the balls, the complaint without door handle Pre-stage computer somehow random jump hao123 number one shop such as the address to engage I thought the computer poisoning. Recently it touches not jump regardless of login what the...

More Malware Showing Up as Fake SourceForge Web Sites

Malware developers continue to clone SourceForge Web sites that appear to offer the source code for popular gaming software but are actually peddling malicious code tied to the ZeroAccess Trojan. Julien Sobrier, a security researcher for San Jose-based cloud security provider Zscaler, on Tuesday...