Chinese PUPs and backdoor drivers: making systems less secure since 2013

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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Why Malwarebytes detects PC Pitstop as Potentially Unwanted

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