SuperFish Adware Root Certificate

SuperFish Adware is a software that uses SSL man-in-the-middle MitM technique in order to intercept SSL sessions and inject its own content into the session. Successful exploitation might result in disclosure of confidential or private information passed over the SSL channel, or in such informati...

Adware Android Apps Found in Google Play With Millions of Downloads

With the rise in mobile market, last year we have seen sharp growth in malicious 'adware' — the most prevalent mobile threat in the world. And now, security researchers have once again found Google Play Store offering malicious apps that are infecting millions of Android users with adware. It’s n...

Microsoft Changing Detection of Adware and Browser Modifiers

One of the not-so-great side effects of the transition to virtually everything being done in the Web browser now is that advertisers, attackers and scammers constantly are trying to get their code to run in users’ browsers, any way they can. A lot of this is done through extensions and browser...

'Kyle and Stan' Malvertising Network Targets Windows and Mac Users

A malvertising network that has been operating since at least May has been able to place malicious ads on a number of high-profile sites, including Amazon and YouTube and serves a unique piece of malware to each victim. The network, dubbed Kyle and Stan by the Cisco researchers who analyzed its...

DeviantArt Malwaretising Campaigns lead to Potentially Unwanted Apps

Today, the estimated number of known computer threats like viruses, worms, backdoors, exploits, Trojans, spyware, password stealer, and other variants of potentially unwanted software range into millions. It has the capability to create several different forms of itself dynamically in order to...

Don't Fall for Fake Instagram Desktop Applications Offering 'Image Viewer'

Today, the estimated number of known computer threats like viruses, worms, backdoors, exploits, Trojans, spyware, password stealers, and other variants of potentially unwanted software range into millions. It has ability to create several different forms of itself dynamically in order to thwart...

Microsoft To Block Unwanted Adware July 1

Microsoft has announced this summer it will change the way it classifies adware by beginning to block unwanted and intrusive advertisements from users. New objective criteria drafted up by the company stipulates that by July 1 internet ads must have a visible close button and must clearly state...

[JRT] Junkware Removal Tool

Junkware Removal Tool is a security utility that searches for and removes common adware, toolbars, and potentially unwanted programs PUPs from your computer. A common tactics among freeware publishers is to offer their products for free, but bundle them with PUPs in order to earn revenue. This to...

[AdwCleaner] Removal Tool for Adware, Toolbars and Hijacker

AdwCleaner is a free removal tool for : Adware ads softwares PUP/LPI Potentially Undesirable Program Toolbars Hijacker Hijack of the browser's homepage It works with a Search and Delete mode. It can be easily uninstalled using the mode "Uninstall". It's compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8....

Malicious iOS Tor Browser in Apple App Store

An iOS Tor Browser hosted for download on Apple’s notoriously restrictive App Store is reportedly a fake. Worse yet, not only is the application said to be illegitimate, but also allegedly malicious. According to a support ticket opened by a Tor Project volunteer operating under the handle Phobos...

Google Chrome added pop-up warning to prevent users from Browser hijacking

GOOGLE, one of the most trusted brands continuously trying to keep its products more robust and secure for keeping its users safe. Google honors vulnerability hunters under its Bug bounty program and not only that, the company also offer a huge amount of reward to hackers in 'Pwnium' hacking...

Google Pulls Adware Extensions from Chrome Store

Two Chrome extensions went from legitimate browsing ad-ons to adware-spewing nuisances in the blink of a legitimate transaction. Google recently took action against the Add to Feedly and Tweet this Page extensions, removing both from the Chrome Store after they were sold to adware brokers and fou...

Adware Companies buying popular Chrome extensions to inject Ads and Malware

Browser extensions are extra features and functionality that you can easily add to Google Chrome, Firefox and other popular Browsers, but they can be used to serve malicious adware, which automatically renders advertisements in order to generate revenue for its author. Hackers are now taking thei...

Google, FireEye Demand Change from Vulna Ad Network

An Android ad library containing a maliciously potent cocktail of features and vulnerabilities is less of a danger to Android users today after Google and the ad network made a series of changes spurred by security firm FireEye’s insistence. Despite fixes from the ad network, updates implemented ...

Tor Botnet Makes Bad Move to Anonymity Network

MEvade, the massive botnet using Tor as a communication protocol, may have moved operations to the network in order to hamper potential takedown efforts, but according to security researchers, the move just served to shine a spotlight on the botnet’s activities. Rather than hide traffic from bots...

Adware Spotted Spreading Via Google App Engine

Spammy websites distributing adware as Java or other kinds of software updates are nothing new but researchers have recently noticed two sites pushing that malware to users through sites that leverage Google’s App Engine. Both sites were started just over a week ago and make use of the appspot.co...

New Mac OS X adware Trojan spreading via browser plugin

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web reports that a new Mac OS X adware Trojan spreading itself via crafted movie trailer pages that prompt users to install a browser plugin. Basically, an adware is any software package which automatically renders advertisements in order to generate revenue for...

New Mac OS X adware Trojan spreading via browser plugin

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web reports that a new Mac OS X adware Trojan spreading itself via crafted movie trailer pages that prompt users to install a browser plugin. Basically, an adware is any software package which automatically renders advertisements in order to generate revenue for...

Android MDK Trojan Found Lurking in 11K Apps, Using AES Encryption

Android.Troj.mdk, the Trojan botnet that last week was reported to have infected one million devices, mainly Chinese Android phones, is a new variant of a separate strain of malware, Backscript, researchers say. Both variants of malware use the same certificate to sign APKs, yet Troj.mdk MDK uses...

Third Party Android App Store Doling Out Adware

Users looking for “cracked” Android files are in danger of running into a site that is peddling apps that are more or less a ploy to garner advertising clicks from unsuspecting users. The site, getwapi.com, boasts a collection of free, yet crooked looking downloads for Android phones including...