12 million users enticed to download utilities that secretly bundled adware and spyware

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This is clearly "user issue" so , remember "Think Before you Click"


From the article:
“Installed with administrator rights, (Wizz) is able to harvest personal information, and install and launch executables uploaded by the controlling party,”

Researchers found 55 domains used for Tuto4PC’s adware/spyware campaign, each owned by Tuto4PC or a subsidiary. Talos said the domains were used to distribute the Wizz.exe binaries. “The domains had various ‘PC Clean’, ‘Free Game’ and ‘Offer’ style names all questionable to a degree as to how legitimate they are


For more info:
https://threatpost.com/tuto4pc-utilities-silently-install-12m-backdoors-cisco/117704/