A malware installer posing as a legitimate download service is infecting brands across almost every industry — Microsoft Edge, Razer, Kaspersky and more actively imitated
- Microsoft warns Chinese group Silver Fox spoofed download sites for major tech brands
- Victims install backdoored software enabling persistence, disabling Defender/updates, and payload delivery
- Targets span healthcare, manufacturing, gaming, government; Microsoft urges tamper protection and behavior‑based detection
Cybercriminals are spoofing some of the world’s most popular technology and software companies in an attempt to infect their targets with dangerous backdoors. This is according to security researchers from Microsoft, who warned about the ongoing campaign in an in-depth report published earlier this week.
Microsoft said it discovered an ongoing campaign in which Chinese hackers (presumably Silver Fox, AKA Yinhu) were creating fraudulent download pages for some of the world’s most popular tech and software companies, including Razer, Kaspersky, Microsoft, NetEase, Baidu NetDisk, oCam ScreenRecorder, SteelSeries, Calibre, MindMaster, and many others.
Victim organizations looking to download software built by these companies end up downloading a weaponized version that works...
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