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An opaque digital marketing firm based in Tel Aviv attempted to silence a group of researchers after they found that the company was responsible for highly intrusive advertising software which infected upwards of 10,000 Apple computers since 2016. New research by Israeli company Cybereason shows that TargetingEdge, a secretive advertising technology firm, had developed and spread “OSX.Pirrit,” a covert piece of software that can manipulate browsers, track users’ activity and forcefully load digital advertisements. These advertisements appear to be scams, including fake, paid Apple customer channels and disreputable anti-virus software downloads. The lead project researcher Amit Serper described OSX.Pirrit as malware due to the program gaining root access to a victim’s device and attempting to remain hidden in order to avoid being uninstalled or tracked by anti-virus products. Cybereason was able to connect OSX.Pirrit to TargetingEdge by studying how the command and control infrastructure behind the adware would call back […]

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