Not sure who needs to know this, but if you download and install the Windows version of Rufus, the free software for writing ISO images to USB/CD-ROM, your PC will end up with about 100 trojans.
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A kind reader submitted the Rufus installer to any.run, a sandbox which walks through the installation of software to find malware that gets installed only *AFTER* the executable is clicked. You can see exactly all of the post-install prompts to download additional software that I also saw.
@briankrebs funny that it is possible to send the rufus installer to analysis when the rufus folks claim it has no installer.
The reality distortion field is strong here. -
@rx13 @briankrebs this. I struggled to find the news article about it but yep, ad space being bought on common tools searches which show the correct website in the URL slot next to the result but take you to the non genuine page.
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Does seem to be quite a lot of look alike domains in the last week, so this is my best guess on your experience -
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