Collaborate Disseminate
Last Friday, I wrote about a set of 6 PUP apps by Nikoff Security. This week, there have been some new developments in the story, some good news and some bad news.Categories: PUPs
Threat analysisTags: AppleMac App StoreNikoff SecurityPUPPUPs(Read more… Continue reading PUP Friday: Nikoff Security redux
My attention was drawn a few weeks ago to a group of 6 apps in the Mac App Store, all made by someone named Nicholas Ebner. Part of what drew my attention was the name of one of the apps: Adware WebMedic Pro, suspiciously similar to the name of my old … Continue reading PUP Friday: Nikoff Security
MPlayerX has been around for over 2 years. With it’s adware installer, adware, analysis avoidance behavior, and other PUPs calling it a PUP is a no-brainer.Categories: PUPs
Threat analysisTags: adwareIronCoremalwareMalwarebytesMPlayerXPUPVSearch(Read … Continue reading PUP Friday: MPlayerX
This may be a new trend among browser hijackers, but it seems more than a coincidence that we found two browser hijackers using a very similar approach to reach their goal of taking victims to the sites of their choice.Categories: Cybercrime
MalwareTa… Continue reading File-in-the-middle hijackers
On July 29, we published a blog titled “PUP Friday: Cleaning up with 5 star awards”, taking a look at a registry cleaner called RegCleanPro made by Systweak. We detect the file in question as a PUP, and covered it as part of our regular PUP Friday seri… Continue reading Systweak Redux: our response
We wrote an article in 2014 about some fraudulent behaviors involving MacKeeper. Fast forward to 2016, and unfortunately, the story is much the same.Categories: PUPs
Threat analysisTags: ApplemacPUPPUPs(Read more…) Continue reading PUP Friday: MacKeeper
We very quickly found ourselves in a deep rabbit-hole of Mac crapware when researching a major developer of Mac PUPs (potentially unwanted programs), PCVARK.Categories: PUPs
Threat analysisTags: ApplemacPCVARKPUP(Read more…) Continue reading PCVARK plays dirty
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| EoRezo is a detection name that is in use for a big part of the adware family called Tuto4PC. The adware is bundled with other software and with tutorials (about software). The adware, although annoying, is usually harmless by itself, but that can’t be said about the advertisements and sites it opens on the victim’s computer.
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| Systweak’s RegClean Pro is quite a popular software. Top Ten Reviews, a consumer review portal based in Utah, has ranked it as number one in their “Registry Repair Software” category. It also boasts of having won more than a hundred 5-star awards. Yet in spite of these, something is amiss. With praises for it also…
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