Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The experts discovered that digital certificates are then used to spread malware, mainly adware. The verification is done using a public antivirus scanning service, then the threat actors use the file scan record as “a clean bill of health” for potential buyers. SecurityAffairs – digital certificates, hacking).

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

This ends up executing sketchy code that installs viruses, ransomware, spyware, or adware behind the victim's back. A DNS firewall and a classic antivirus are somewhat underused yet effective security tools that will come in handy. However, that seems to be a misconception because these cyberattacks often overlap.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

Although the campaign has not reached the magnitude of the Zacinlo adware campaign, it is already infecting users worldwide.” The malware spreads via Trojanized applications disguised as cracked software, or applications posing as legitimate software such as video players, drivers or even antivirus software.

Spyware 69

Spyware Adware Malware Accountability 69

Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

But over the last few years, credible threats, exploits, and hacks of Apple products have become more persistent. Unlike their Microsoft counterparts, Apple have been historically far more reticent about working with others—and that extends to third-party antivirus programs and security researchers alike.

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Malware Adware Software Passwords 105

IT Security Guru

AUGUST 9, 2022

Be cautious when you enter public wi-fi and use VPN to protect you from hacking techniques and phishing attacks. Worms, adware, rootkits, spyware, trojans, ransomware, and many other viruses that may have come to your ears along the time are your personal data’s enemies. Pay attention to symptoms of malware.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Two other vulnerabilities, CVE-2021-1647 and CVE-2021-24092 , were found in the Microsoft Defender antivirus engine, allowing elevation of user privileges in the system and execution of potentially dangerous code. Traditionally, most of the Top 20 threats for macOS are adware programs: 15 in Q1. 7.90%) maintained its popularity.

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Mobile Adware Ransomware Malware 96

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In fact, some attacks have gone so “quiet” that they involve no malware at all.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

“However, our investigation almost immediately revealed that this malware, whatever it was, did not exhibit the behaviors that we’ve come to expect from the usual adware that so often targets macOS systems.” The adware writes each of its components out line by line with JavaScript commands. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Security Antivirus – software that scans a device or a network to detect security threats, alert you, and neutralize malicious code. Malware and Ransomware Adware – Software that automatically displays or downloads material when a user is offline.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Web antivirus recognized 675,832,360 unique URLs as malicious. Our file antivirus detected 68,294,298 unique malicious and potentially unwanted objects. . As in the previous quarter, a total of 15 of the Top 20 threats for macOS are adware programs. Ransomware attacks were defeated on the computers of 97,451 unique users.

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SecureList

APRIL 10, 2023

The main products that attackers buy are developers’ Google Play accounts that can be either hacked or registered by cybercriminals using stolen identities, as well as source code of various tools that help the buyer to upload their creations to Google Play. If it is possible, uninstall the app, and scan the device with an antivirus.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

We believe this is a continuation of a campaign last summer, reported by Avast , in which the malware masqueraded as the Malwarebytes antivirus installer. Most malicious objects detected for the macOS platform are adware. You can read our analysis of a new adware program called Convuster here. Secondhand news.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

All of them were ordinary people using our free antivirus solution, seemingly unconnected with any organization of interest to a sophisticated attacker of this kind. From January 2020 to June 2022, adware hiding in browser extensions affected more than 4.3 Later that year, we documented the PowerPepper campaign.

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Malware Computers and Electronics Adware Cryptocurrency 109

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Endpoint security : protects endpoints with antivirus, endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools, etc. For example, malware, spyware, adware, computer worms, botnets, trojan horses and similar malware do not normally impact network equipment (routers, firewalls, etc.) or network traffic. DNS security (IP address redirection, etc.),

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

The majority (61.43%) of the discovered threats belonged to the adware category. For instance, adware that belongs to the AdWare.AndroidOS.Notifyer family was distributed in the first quarter under the guise of a file named ir.corona.viruss.apk, and Backdoor.AndroidOS.Ahmyth.f Quarterly highlights. Verdict. %*. Mobile banking Trojans.

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