{"id":943,"date":"2024-05-24T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/fake-antivirus-websites-deliver-malware-to-android-and-windows-devices\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:12:08","slug":"fake-antivirus-websites-deliver-malware-to-android-and-windows-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/fake-antivirus-websites-deliver-malware-to-android-and-windows-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Antivirus Websites Deliver Malware to Android and Windows Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat actors have been observed making use of fake websites masquerading as legitimate antivirus solutions from Avast, Bitdefender, and Malwarebytes to propagate malware capable of stealing sensitive information from Android and Windows devices.<br \/>\n&#8220;Hosting malicious software through sites which look legitimate is predatory to general consumers, especially those who look to protect their devices\u00a0Threat actors have been observed making use of fake websites masquerading as legitimate antivirus solutions from Avast, Bitdefender, and Malwarebytes to propagate malware capable of stealing sensitive information from Android and Windows devices.<br \/>\n&#8220;Hosting malicious software through sites which look legitimate is predatory to general consumers, especially those who look to protect their devices\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat actors have been observed making use of fake websites masquerading as legitimate antivirus solutions from Avast, Bitdefender, and Malwarebytes to propagate malware capable of stealing sensitive information from Android and Windows devices. &#8220;Hosting malicious software through sites which look legitimate is predatory to general consumers, especially those who look to protect their devices\u00a0Threat actors&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/fake-antivirus-websites-deliver-malware-to-android-and-windows-devices\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake Antivirus Websites Deliver Malware to Android and Windows Devices<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":944,"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\/943"}],"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=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}