On Thursday Microsoft warned that there's an ongoing campaign to distribute malware that modifies web browsers to conduct credential theft and ad fraud.
Since at least May, 2020, unidentified cybercriminals have been distributing a family of browser modifiers dubbed Adrozek, Microsoft said. The code, which targets Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Yandex Browser on Windows, mainly injects ads into search results pages.
"If not detected and blocked, Adrozek adds browser extensions, modifies a specific DLL per target browser, and changes browser settings to insert additional, unauthorized ads into web pages, often on top of legitimate ads from search engines," the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team said its blog post.
"The intended effect is for users, searching for certain keywords, to inadvertently click on these malware-inserted ads, which lead to ..
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