Collaborate Disseminate
PUPs and more specifically system optimizers have been found turning to tech support scams to increase the amount of money they can take from their unsuspecting customers.
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Cybercrime
PUP
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In this blog, we expose a family of backdoor drivers that have been included in various PUPs of Chinese origin for several years.
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Malware
PUP/PUM
Threat analysis
Tags: IOCTLPUPPUPs
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The post Chinese PUPs and backdoor driv… Continue reading Chinese PUPs and backdoor drivers: making systems less secure since 2013
Spigot browser hijackers of this family are easy to recognize and in our opinion hardly worth installing because they add no more functionality then a few bookmarks. We hope this post helps you to avoid them in the future.Categories: PUP/PUMTags: brows… Continue reading Spigot browser hijackers
Spigot browser hijackers of this family are easy to recognize and in our opinion hardly worth installing because they add no more functionality then a few bookmarks. We hope this post helps you to avoid them in the future.Categories: PUP/PUMTags: brows… Continue reading Spigot browser hijackers
PC Pitstop makes several products including PC Matic, PC Magnum, Optimize, Driver Alert, and Disk MD. As of a few weeks ago, we detect these products as PUP.Optional, here is why.Categories: PUP/PUMTags: Disk MDDriver AlertMalwarebytesOptimizePC Magnum… Continue reading Why Malwarebytes detects PC Pitstop as Potentially Unwanted
Mac users may face less malware attacks than their Windows counterparts, but it doesn’t mean they are safe from online crooks. In this post we review the top malvertising attacks that target the OS X platform and how to stay safe.Categories: Social eng… Continue reading An overview of malvertising on the Mac
Content Protector is an adware that is offered as a netfiltering program. This seems a bit strange for ad-supported software. It also comes with it’s own certificate.Categories: PUPs
Threat analysisTags: adwarecontent defenderContent protectornetfilte… Continue reading PUP Friday: Content Protector
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
For this PUP Friday post, we’re going to look into PUPs that we can simply classify as “Downloaders”. We have sampled a program called the Internet Download Manager, which is capable of downloading other files we detect as PUP and connects to sites lea… Continue reading PUP Friday: Let’s talk generic
We are getting even more critical about what we call a PUP, and what what we are going to be detecting and removing from user systems. Categories: CEO announcements
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