"Fireball – The Chinese Malware of 250 Million Computers Infected"

Malware by the name of “Fireball” has recently been discovered by Check Point Threat Intelligence and research teams, which has infected over 250 million computers globally. The malware infiltrates and manipulates users’ browsers and web-traffic to download additional malware and generate ad-revenue.  Fireball is an operation run by Rafotech, a digital marketing agency located in Beijing for the purpose of collecting private information of users via fake search engines generated by the manipulation of users’ browsers. This article further discusses key findings and details pertaining to this highly infectious threat operation along with how to remove the malware.

Check Point reports "Fireball – The Chinese Malware of 250 Million Computers Infected"