Hot damn, Chinese Fireball malware burns 250 million computers worldwide
IF YOU ARE AN UNLUCKY SORT OF PERSON YOU MAY HAVE caught a dose of some fresh Chinese malware called Fireball, that will have made you and just under 250 million other people into malware sponges with no control over their search browser.Check Point security is the firm with the warning, and it reckons that Fireball comes out of Rafotech, a large digital marketing agency based in Beijing and that it is being used to hijack browsers for nefarious purposes.The security firm says that once installed, the malware can do two things: allow for third party control and act as ”a prominent distributor” tap for any additional malware”Rafotech uses Fireball to manipulate the victims’ browsers and turn their default search engines and home pages into fake search engines. This redirects the queries to either yahoo.com or Google.com,” it said.”The fake search engines include tracking pixels used to collect the users’ private information. Fireball has the ability to spy on victims, perform efficient malware dropping, and execute any malicious code in the infected machines, this creates a massive security flaw in targeted machines and networks.”
Källa: Hot damn, Chinese Fireball malware burns 250 million computers worldwide
