Published on: 2025-06-28 17:39:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In brief: If you're going to visit websites that host pirated video streams, you'd better be willing to accept the risks. That's something owners of the one million devices affected by a malware campaign originating from these sites might not have considered. Microsoft writes that its threat analysis team detected a large-scale malvertising campaign that impacted nearly one million devices globally
Keywords: github malware microsoft payloads used
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 15:53:36
Microsoft has taken down an undisclosed number of GitHub repositories used in a massive malvertising campaign that impacted almost one million devices worldwide. The company's threat analysts detected these attacks in early December 2024 after observing multiple devices downloading malware from GitHub repos, malware that was later used to deploy a string of various other payloads on compromised systems. After analyzing the campaign, they discovered that the attackers injected ads into videos
Keywords: github malvertising malware microsoft payloads
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