INTRUSION Announces It Has Discovered a Popular Mobile Gaming Site Directing Traffic to a Search Site Known for Malware Distribution
August 04 2021 - 9:00AM
INTRUSION, Inc. (Nasdaq:INTZ) today announced its threat detection
team has discovered and documented suspicious behavior on two
popular web sites (Playrix[.]com and Yandex[.]com) that are hosted
in Russia and expose unknowing visitors to malware downloads.
INTRUSION’s threat research team documented suspicious
relationships and activities that indicate a malware distribution
group has infiltrated what are treated as reputable and safe
Russian web sites Playrix and Yandex. Playrix, Inc., is the #3
mobile gaming platform in the world, responsible for mobile games
such as Fishdom, Township, Homescapes, and Gardenscapes. Since its
launch in August 2016, Gardenscapes alone has amassed around 468.4
million installs worldwide. Yandex is the Russian version of
Google, listed on the NASDAQ and is currently the fifth largest
search engine in the world with roughly 17.5 million visitors per
month.
Said Gary Davis, INTRUSION Chief Evangelist, “This discovery
illustrates just how easy it is for innocent visitors to be exposed
to malware. It reinforces the point that we need to make sure our
employees understand how to safely navigate the Internet and that
companies need to use advanced cybersecurity innovations to protect
their employees and critical assets.”
Davis further explained that their threat researchers were able
to see a path from the gaming web site via unusual behaving java
script that appeared on Playrix with the purpose of redirecting
visitors to a subdomain of Yandex that places a user’s device or
organization’s network at risk to malware. The threat research team
was able to track over 20 known malicious files (malware)
specifically coded to reach back to the identified Yandex
subdomain.
Davis is available at Black Hat August 4th and August 5th to
discuss this and other news topics. To access the detailed report,
click on the following link:
https://shield.intrusion.com/reports/2021-discovery-report-pr
About INTRUSION, Inc.
INTRUSION, Inc. (NASDAQ: INTZ) protects any-sized company by
leveraging advanced threat intelligence with real-time artificial
intelligence to kill cyberattacks as they occur – including
zero-days. INTRUSION’s solution families include INTRUSION Shield,
an advanced cyber-defense solution that kills cyberattacks in
real-time using artificial intelligence (AI) and an advanced threat
intelligence cloud; INTRUSION TraceCop™ for threat discovery and
disclosure; and INTRUSION Savant™ for network monitoring and
advanced persistent threat detection. For more information, please
visit www.intrusion.com.
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