Recently, Microsoft 365 Defender Research affirmed that they had recorded a new malware that has been continuously attacking popular browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Yandex.
The malware is named Adrozek Malware, and it is specifically created to inject ads into search engine results pages. Since May 2020, this malware has been on track with the highest attacks reported in August 2020.
According to Microsoft’s report, this malware has been attacking browsers on over 30,000 devices every day at an average rate. And Europe and Asia were severely affected by this malware from May to September.
Distribution Infrastructure
The threat actors install this malware on the device through a drive-by download. However, the experts were tracking the Adrozek campaign from May to September 2020; And after tracking all the steps of Adrozek, they noticed that 159 unique domains were used to administer hundreds of thousands of unusual malware samples.
Many domains hosted tens of…