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· One min read
Yevgeniy Goncharov
Yevgeniy Goncharov
Maintainer of OpenBLD.net

Infection chain

Advertising platforms like Google Ads enable businesses to display advertisements to target audiences to boost traffic and increase sales. Malware distributors abuse the same functionality in a technique known as malvertising, where chosen keywords are hijacked to display malicious ads that lure unsuspecting search engine users into downloading certain types of malware.

↘ Prevent ThirdEye Infostealer

· One min read
Yevgeniy Goncharov
Yevgeniy Goncharov
Maintainer of OpenBLD.net

Prevent ThirdEye Infostealer

FortiGuard Labs recently came across files that look suspicious, even during a cursory review. Our subsequent investigation confirmed that the files are malicious and revealed there is more to them than meets the eye: they are a previously unseen infostealer we have named “ThirdEye”. While this malware is not considered sophisticated, it’s designed to steal various information from compromised machines that can be used as stepping-stones for future attacks.