In plain sight: Credential and data stealing adware

By Veronica Valeros Adware has been around for a while now. In principle, displaying advertising in order to finance your software is not necessarily something bad. Users are used to seeing advertising everywhere: newspapers, magazines, and websites. When advertising was introduced to software, users had a surprisingly high tolerance for it. Later, adware applications became more aggressive. Publishers started bundling more applications and taking advantage […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice