New Chinese Malware infect 2.5 crore computers in India..

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Again a new malware attack on India it is a type of New Chinese malware named "Fireball" which infected 2.5 crore computers all over India.

A company check point security discovered a new type of malware Fireball that infected over 25 computers and turning them  into zombies. All 25 computers have been infected from this malware. 2.5 crore in India and 2.4 crore in Brazil has been infected . And worldwide 250 million computers infected .

The new malware called firewall is designed to hijack browser to change the default search  engine and while tracking their web traffic on behalf of  Bejing - based digital marketing Firm which is called Rafotech  is behind the operation of malware .
 And second thing it is done by downloading any file or malware to hijack the victims computer.

Billions of computers could easily get infected from malware. It installs the backdoor into all these computers and can be very easily utilized and take all data as well as information of the victims by the hand of Chinese  peoples behind this .Checkpoint company estimated that among all  5  corporate network globally have at least one infection. 

This new malware also manipulates the Victims browsers and turn their default search engine and home pages into fake search engine that redirect queries to either yahoo.com or google.com . The fake search engines  include tracking pixels that collect users private information as all malware do.

There are some list of infected countries :-

India is in hit list 25.3 million (10.1 %)
Brazil 24.1 (9.6 %)
Mexico 16.1 million (6.4 %)
Indonesia 13.1 million (5.2 %)
US 5.5 million (2.2 %)

Now how to know your computer is infected or not : -

1) Unfamiliar default search engines and web browsers are a sign you might be infected with adware.
2) To remove adware, uninstall from the device
3) Use anti - malware software and adware cleaners software to clean the adware

For anti malware you can use   

Hitman Pro
Malware Bytes
MSRT
NPE

Stay safe .

Thank- you all .


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