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The “Wizzards”” of Adware”

Talos observed an increase in Generic Trojans across our telemetry – which is generally a binary exhibiting malicious intent/behavior, but may have no current associated family or any other identifying features. The word Wizz was in the name of every sample analyzed – roughly 7,000 unique samples. The software is able to harvest personal information, and install + launch executables uploaded by the controlling party. As a result, we found the install base for this software to be approximately 12 million machines across the Internet.”]

Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2016/04/the-wizzards-of-adware.html

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