Chinese company Rafotech believed to be behind millions of malware infections

According to extensive research from the Israeli cyber-security firm Check Point, a Chinese digital marketing company called Rafotech has infected millions of computers worldwide with adware that redirects user traffic to fake search engines. The fake search engines then divert their search queries through Google and Yahoo's affiliate programs to earn a commission for the company behind the adware. So far Rafotech has infected over 250 million computers according to a rough estimation from Check Point. The reason the adware has been able to spread so quickly to so many computers is that Rafotech often bundled its malicious software with… [Continue Reading]