Users using Google to search for and download the KeePass password manager and the Notepad++ text editor may have inadvertently gotten saddled with malware, says Jérôme Segura, Director of Threat Intelligence at Malwarebytes. Malvertising via search engine ads is a constant, evolving threat that seemingly never goes away and, according to Malwarebytes, it’s ramping up again. “Threat actors are successfully applying evasion techniques that bypass ad verification checks and allow them to target certain types … More
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