Ask Partner Network (APN) has been compromised twice within 2 month since 2016 November. Researcher’s Discovered deliver malware to computers running the Ask.com Toolbar.
First Attack took place at the November Reported by Red Canary security and discovered that Ask’s software was being co-opted by a malicious actor to execute malicious software on victims’ endpoints.
Once installed, the dropper would bring in secondary malware including banking Trojans and other online-fraud.
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