TLDR InfoSec · MISCELLANEOUS

MALVERTISER COPIES PC NEWS SITE TO DELIVER INFOSTEALER

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Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

Researchers observed a malvertising campaign mimicking the legitimate Windows news site WindowsReport.com to distribute malware posing as the popular tool CPU-Z. The campaign leverages trusted site replicas instead of vendor sites and is part of a larger effort also targeting Notepad++, Citrix, and VNC Viewer.