{"id":311,"date":"2024-03-15T08:14:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T08:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/malicious-ads-targeting-chinese-users-with-fake-notepad-and-vnote-installers\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T08:14:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T08:14:23","slug":"malicious-ads-targeting-chinese-users-with-fake-notepad-and-vnote-installers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/malicious-ads-targeting-chinese-users-with-fake-notepad-and-vnote-installers\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious Ads Targeting Chinese Users with Fake Notepad++ and VNote Installers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bChinese users looking for legitimate software such as Notepad++ and VNote on search engines like Baidu are being targeted with malicious ads and bogus links to distribute trojanized versions of the software and ultimately deploy\u00a0Geacon, a Golang-based implementation of Cobalt Strike.<br \/>\n\u201cThe malicious site found in the notepad++ search is distributed through an advertisement block,\u201d Kaspersky\u00a0Chinese users looking for legitimate software such as Notepad++ and VNote on search engines like Baidu are being targeted with malicious ads and bogus links to distribute trojanized versions of the software and ultimately deploy\u00a0Geacon, a Golang-based implementation of Cobalt Strike.<br \/>\n\u201cThe malicious site found in the notepad++ search is distributed through an advertisement block,\u201d Kaspersky\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bChinese users looking for legitimate software such as Notepad++ and VNote on search engines like Baidu are being targeted with malicious ads and bogus links to distribute trojanized versions of the software and ultimately deploy\u00a0Geacon, a Golang-based implementation of Cobalt Strike. \u201cThe malicious site found in the notepad++ search is distributed through an advertisement block,\u201d&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/malicious-ads-targeting-chinese-users-with-fake-notepad-and-vnote-installers\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Malicious Ads Targeting Chinese Users with Fake Notepad++ and VNote Installers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}