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Nearly a million devices were infected in a huge GitHub malvertising campaign
Microsoft has alerted users to a malvertising campaign leveraging GitHub to infect nearly 1 million devices around the world. A new advisory from Microsoft Threat Intelligence stated that in December 2024 it detected a large-scale campaign using the developer platform as the primary vehicle to deliver the initial access payloads used in attacks. The campaign’s initial stage injects adverts into…
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BadBox malware disrupted on 500K infected Android devices
The BadBox Android malware botnet has been disrupted again by removing 24 malicious apps from Google Play and sinkholing communications for half a million infected devices. The BadBox botnet is a cyber-fraud operation targeting primarily low-cost Android-based devices like TV streaming boxes, tablets, smart TVs, and smartphones. These devices either come pre-loaded with the BadBox malware from the manufacturer or…
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Check Your PC for This Steam Game Infected With Malware
Scammers are getting increasingly clever about injecting apps with malware. Certainly it’s nothing new that malicious apps are littered across the internet, but lately they’ve been popping up with alarming frequency even in theoretically safe spots like the Google Play Store and even Apple’s App Store. Malware is even showing up on Steam, serving as a reminder that we all…
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