Fireball Chinese malware and you

By now, you might have heard about an adware infection operation that has allegedly spread to 250 million systems called Fireball. The threat intelligence and research teams at Check Point wrote a blog post last week describing the operation, what th… Continue reading Fireball Chinese malware and you

Youndoo creates new Chrome profile

A new Youndoo hijacker from the Elex family copies most of the settings from an existing Chrome user account to create a fake, infected one.Categories: Cybercrime
MalwareTags: browser hijackerchromeelexfake Chrome profilePieter ArntzPUPPUPsYoundoo(Rea… Continue reading Youndoo creates new Chrome profile

Explained: WMI hijackers

This post describes how WMI hijackers work and why they are hard to find on an affected system. It also shows an example of such a hijacker called Yeabests after the domain it hijacks to.Categories: Cybercrime
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