Hack Brief: Fireball Adware

HACK BRIEF: DANGEROUS ‘FIREBALL’ ADWARE INFECTS A QUARTER BILLION PCs

Adware that infects your computer to display pop-ups is an annoyance. But when it infects as many as one in five networks in the world, and hides the capability to do far more serious damage to its victims, it’s an epidemic waiting to happen.

The security firm Check Point has warned of a massive new outbreak: They count 250 million PCs infected with malicious…read more