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Fireball Chinese malware and you

June 7, 2017 admin adam kujawa, Adware, adware.elex, browser, cybercrime, elex, fireball, hijack, malware, malwarebytes labs, rafotech

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 22:54:11 +0000

By now, you might have heard about an adware infection operation that has allegedly spread to 250 million systems called Fireball. The threat intelligence and research teams at Check Point wrote a blog post last week describing the operation, what the threat does the system and the alarming potential the malware has for doing some serious damage. We delve into the worst case scenario with this situation and how to remove Fireball if you are infected.

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