Malwarebytes

JULY 1, 2022

Adware bundles in the early 2000s capitalised on this approach, with revenue paid for dozens of adverts popping on desktops in as short a time as possible. It starts life as a rogue Word document attachmed to an email. The payload lurking in the document is an embedded OLE object. That smash and grab spirit lives on.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Some applications you download may include adware or utilities that slow down your PC. From a day-to-day perspective, your PC helps you create or enjoy videos, music, photos, documents, and much more to unleash your creativity, plan your life, and run your business. That’s bloatware too. Bloatware isn’t always preinstalled.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Jump ahead: Adware. Adware, also known as malvertising , is a type of malware that downloads or displays advertisements to the user interface. Rather than stealing data, adware is more of an irritant forcing users to see unwanted ads. Most users are familiar with adware in the form of unclosable browser pop-ups.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Lastly, the CVE-2021-21017 vulnerability, discovered in Adobe Reader, caused a heap buffer overflow by means of a specially crafted document, giving an attacker the ability to execute code. Updated adware for the new Macs also immediately appeared, in particular the Pirrit family (whose members placed high in our Top 20 threats for macOS).

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Once the victim opens an infected document and agrees to enable macros, the malware is dropped onto the system and proceeds to a multi-stage deployment procedure. 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

Later that year, we documented the PowerPepper campaign. First, the threat actor sends a spear-phishing email to the potential victim with a lure to download additional documents. When the fetched document is opened, it connects to the second C2 server.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

In the vast majority of the incidents we discovered, FoundCore executions were preceded by the opening of malicious RTF documents downloaded from static.phongay[.]com In April, we discovered a suspicious Word document containing a Korean file name and decoy uploaded to VirusTotal. Andariel adds ransomware to its toolset. We Are Back ?

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

One of the last threats to be discovered in Q1 was a Rust backdoor disguised as a VisualStudio updater and spreading as documents describing job openings. Our calculations do not include Web Anti-Virus detections of potentially dangerous or unwanted programs, such as RiskTool or adware. AdWare.OSX.Amc.e Trojan.OSX.Agent.gen 5.35

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Malwarebytes

MAY 16, 2022

At the core of the MRG-Effitas certification process—which tests how products respond to known exploits, ransomware, botnets, adware, and more—is the user. “A A pass is given only when alerts are straightforward, and clearly suggest that the malicious action should be blocked,” the report said. Testing and certification.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Everything you type in such a document in your browser gets sent off to Google. Adware keyloggers. The only good news is that it is not the intent of these programs to harm you (though poor data handling practices by shady adware companies definitely could cause harm regardless of intent). Consider Google docs, for example.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 12, 2021

For example, if an app wants to access something like your contacts or files in your Documents folder on a modern version of macOS, you will be asked to allow it before the app can see that data. Some variants of the Shlayer adware have been seen using this technique.).

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 8, 2022

There is even a Microsoft document on creating a KMS activation host. This is because a legitimate copy of the software may be bundled with adware, or it’s actually malware named after popular software. To understand how KMSPico works, we should first understand how a KMS activation works. Such is the case for KMSPico.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

Ransomware is a type of malware, but others exist, including spyware, adware, bots and Trojans. This threat is easily mitigated when there is a comprehensive BYOD policy which educates employees on device expectations and allow companies to better monitor email and documents that are being downloaded to company-owned devices.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

Yet much of the bad old days of Adware/spyware from 2005 – 2008 was dependent on bad policies and leaky data sharing. On the 24th January, Norway’s Data Protection Authority (NDPA) gave Grindr advance notification [PDF] of its intention to levy a fine. This is because they claim Grindr shared user data to third parties “without legal basis”.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Haddix, who launched his own cybersecurity training and consulting firm Arcanum Information Security this year, said he learned so much during his time at Ubisoft that he and his peers in the industry coined a new, humorous term for attacks that abuse internet-connected platforms: “A browser and a dream.”

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

One Magecart group that has left a substantial amount of bread crumbs from their skimming activity has been documented under various names (Group 8, CoffeMokko, Keeper, FBseo). com google-adware[.]com In fact, many threat actors will reuse certain patterns or resources which allows us to make connections with previous incidents.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 31, 2024

Cybereason Defense Platform : Best for security visualization functionality, Cybereason provides a robust feature set, as well as extensive documentation and training materials. Antivirus (AV) is the foundational layer of endpoint security that detects and removes dangerous software such as worms, trojans, adware, and ransomware.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Adware (4.19%) comes second: this type of software displays unwanted (and sometimes irritating) pop-up ads which can appear on a user’s computer or mobile device. Swarez was distributed inside a ZIP archive which contained a password-protected ZIP file and a text document with a password.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

And yet, an antivirus program is a necessary line of defense that secures your devices from viruses, adware, worms, trojans, and others. For example, an employee installs an app that allows signing documents online; in order to function, this app requests different kinds of permissions – to Google Docs, local folders, email, and so on.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

This error can occur in the Equation Editor component when processing objects in a specially constructed document, and its exploitation causes a buffer overflow and allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. As in the previous quarter, a total of 15 of the Top 20 threats for macOS are adware programs. Country*. % Mauritania.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

These are CVE-2017-11882 and CVE-2018-0802 , which cause a buffer overflow when processing objects in a specially crafted document in the Equation Editor component and ultimately allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Adware from the Pirrit family was encountered most frequently out of all macOS threats in the listed countries.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

It is allowed to host: ordinary sites, doorway pages, satellites, codecs, adware, tds, warez, pharma, spyware, exploits, zeus, IRC, etc. The document shows he was born in Ukraine and is approximately 36 years old. biz: -Based in Asia and Europe. -It Passive SPAM is allowed (you can spam sites that are hosted by us).

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

Cybercriminals were spreading malicious documents that exploited CVE-2017-11882 and CVE-2018-0802 , which are the best-known vulnerabilities in the Equation Editor component. An attacker can use a custom malicious document with a link to an external OLE object, and a special URI scheme to have Windows run the MSDT diagnostics tool.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The attacker can exploit it by using the standard functionality that allows office documents to download templates, implemented with the help of special ActiveX components. Speaking of the most widespread threats detected by Kaspersky security solutions for macOS, most of our Top 20 ranking positions are occupied by various adware apps.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In Q3 2022, malicious Microsoft Office documents again accounted for the greatest number of detections — 80% of the exploits we discovered, although the number decreased slightly compared to Q2. Rounding out the rankings with 2% were exploits spread through PDF documents. Vulnerability statistics. Attacks on macOS. AdWare.OSX.Amc.e,

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SecureList

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Once installed, these files would primarily load Adware – programs that flooded victims’ devices with unwanted advertising and gathered their personal data for third-party use, but in particular cases the same spreading technique is used to download malicious implants for targeted espionage. Kaspersky detected 1.66 Noon.gen: APT groups.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Among the victims of high-profile incidents in the healthcare industry were: McLaren HealthCare (the BlackCat/ALPHV group claimed responsibility for the attack and posted information about it on its data leak site); Prospect Medical Holdings (the Rhysida group posted a statement on its website announcing the theft of 1 TB of documents and a 1.3

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