{"id":190029,"date":"2024-05-24T23:22:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T04:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/beware-these-fake-antivirus-sites-spreading-android-and-windows-malware"},"modified":"2024-05-24T23:22:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T04:22:41","slug":"beware-these-fake-antivirus-sites-spreading-android-and-windows-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/beware-these-fake-antivirus-sites-spreading-android-and-windows-malware","title":{"rendered":"Beware: These Fake Antivirus Sites Spreading Android and Windows Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beware-these-fake-antivirus-sites-spreading-android-and-windows-malware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s currently not clear how these bogus websites are distributed, but similar campaigns in the past have employed techniques such as <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2024\/04\/malicious-google-ads-pushing-fake-ip.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">malvertising<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelone.com\/blog\/breaking-down-the-seo-poisoning-attack-how-attackers-are-hijacking-search-results\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stealer malware have increasingly become a common threat, with cybercriminals advertising numerous custom variants with varying levels of complexity. This includes new stealers like <a href=\"https:\/\/securelist.com\/crimeware-report-stealers\/112633\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Acrid<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadcom.com\/support\/security-center\/protection-bulletin\/samsstealer-malware\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SamsStealer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/securelist.com\/crimeware-report-stealers\/112633\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ScarletStealer<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadcom.com\/support\/security-center\/protection-bulletin\/waltuhium-grabber\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Waltuhium Grabber<\/a>, as well as updates to existing ones such as <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2023\/03\/sys01stealer-new-threat-using-facebook.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SYS01stealer<\/a> (aka Album Stealer or <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2023\/02\/new-s1deload-malware-hijacking-users.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S1deload Stealer<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s currently not clear how these bogus websites are distributed, but similar campaigns in the past have employed techniques such as malvertising and search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning. Stealer malware have increasingly become a common threat, with cybercriminals advertising numerous custom variants with varying levels of complexity. This includes new stealers like Acrid, SamsStealer, ScarletStealer, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}