An adware infection operation that has allegedly spread to 250 million systems called Fireball. The threat intelligence and research teams at Check Point wrote a blog post last week describing the operation, what the threat does, the system, and the alarming potential the malware has for doing some serious damage. We delve into the worst case scenario with this situation and how to remove Fireball if you are infected. It is currently being used as a browser-hijacker being frequently installed through bundling (the same infection method that brings you most of the PUPs we detect)”]
Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2017/06/fireball-chinese-malware/