Collaborate Disseminate
For close to two years now, the Shlayer Trojan has been the most common threat on the macOS platform: in 2019, one in ten of our Mac security solutions encountered this malware at least once. Continue reading Shlayer Trojan attacks one in ten macOS users
Cybercriminals are always coming up with new kinds of fraud. In this particular case, they employed a method for delivering malicious content through torrent trackers to install adware on user computers. Continue reading Pirate matryoshka
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, 99% of the time it’s “partner stuff”. Continue reading How do file partner programs work?
It was more than a year ago that we detected the first member of Pbot family. Since then, we have encountered several modifications of the program, one of which went beyond adware by installing and running a hidden miner on victim computers. Continue reading Pbot: evolving adware