New malware identified by Microsoft and Cisco Talos has affected thousands of PCs in the U.S. and Europe. Nodersok turns systems into proxies for performing malicious activity, the companies said. The malware leverages the popular Node.js framework used by many Web applications and WinDivert, a network packet-capture utility, to turn the systems into unwitting proxies. Both companies released reports on the malware Wednesday in separate blog posts, each had a different opinion as to exactly what it does.
Source: https://threatpost.com/thousands-of-pcs-affected-by-nodersok-divergent-malware/148733/