Attackers Profiting from Proxyware Posted By Sanseo , July 28, 2022 Proxyware is a program that shares a part of the Internet bandwidth that is currently available on a system to others. Users who install the program are usually paid with a certain amount of cash in exchange for providing the bandwidth. Companies that provide such a service include Peer2Profit and IPRoyal. They gain profit by providing the bandwidth to other companies and claim on their webpages that they have various business partners using the service for distributing software, investigating markets,…
Info-leaking Malware Distributed Through Google Keyword Search Posted By jcleebobgatenet , May 13, 2021 The ASEC analysis team has previously dealt with BeamWinHTTP malware being distributed through adware and PUP programs. When users install cracks and keygens by downloading the installers from the phishing page, various PUP programs and BeamWinHTTP malware are installed together. BeamWinHTTP additionally installs info-leaking malware (info-stealers). When users search with keywords like ‘program names,’ ‘cracks,’ and ‘keygens’ in a search engine like Google, they may come across websites with fake shortened URLs. In the example below, the short URL is…
