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Attackers have taken to Facebook Messenger with a combination of social engineering and malicious JavaScript to spread adware.

Mac malware is still a rare occurrence, so it’s no wonder that some of it can lurk, unnoticed for months, on random machines. The latest example falls more in the category of “potentially unwanted...

Mughthesec, a variant of the OperatorMac adware, has been turning hijacked Macs into revenue-generating machines for the authors.

Over one million users were exposed to adware after the developer of a highly popular Chrome extension fell victim to a phishing attack. read more

Compromised accounts push fraudulent extension updates to unsuspecting users.

250 Million Infections of Click-Fraud Malware Tied to Digital Marketing AgencyPolice in Beijing have arrested 11 employees of a Chinese digital marketing agency on charges that they developed and...

Why can’t Google put a stop to adware on their official Android app marketplace? The analysis by Trend Micro researchers of a Trojan Android ad library dubbed Xavier tells the story. The Xavier ad...

Google hasn’t yet removed all of the apps, which have as many as 6 million downloads.

Google hasn’t yet removed all of the apps, which have as many as 6 million downloads.

UK and US Android users have been saddled with unwanted apps via malicious ads that executed a drive-by download attack. According to Zscaler researchers, the malicious ads were posted on forums,...