WeatherWizard Offers Up Malicious Code
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 02/05/2016 05:30 AM
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Malwarebytes has discovered that the WeatherWIzard app delivers more than a weather forecast.
The app delivers a weather forecast as promised, however, along with it comes malicious code that serves up a BSOD and a phone number to tech services leading the victim into the waiting arms of a scammer.
What Malwarebytes finds interesting is the time frame of the attack. Malwarebytes said a bat file, called sc.bat, installs two scheduled tasks that are set to go off every Dec. 1 after install, possibly taking months for the attack to actually take place.
Source: SCMagazine
The app delivers a weather forecast as promised, however, along with it comes malicious code that serves up a BSOD and a phone number to tech services leading the victim into the waiting arms of a scammer.
What Malwarebytes finds interesting is the time frame of the attack. Malwarebytes said a bat file, called sc.bat, installs two scheduled tasks that are set to go off every Dec. 1 after install, possibly taking months for the attack to actually take place.
Source: SCMagazine
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