Security News > 2020 > December > Adrozek Malware Delivers Fake Ads to 30K Devices a Day

A persistent malware campaign called Adrozek has been using an evolved browser modifier to deliver fraudulent ads to search-engine pages, according to Microsoft.

The Adrozek family of malware changes browser settings to allow it to insert fake ads over legitimate ones, which earns the scammers affiliate advertising dollars for each user they can trick into clicking.

Making Adrozek an even more dangerous threat, the malware extracts data from the infected device and sends it to a remote server to be used later; and, in some cases, it steals device credentials.

Installers, the report explained, are distributed across the Adrozek malware infrastructure, making them difficult to detect.

In yet another polymorphic malware feat, Adrozek changes certain browser DLLs to turn off security controls, the Microsoft team observed.

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https://threatpost.com/adrozek-malware-fake-ads-30k-devices/162217/