Key Points
These additional scripts are designed to display a fake Google Chrome update error page stating an automatic update, which failed to install, is required to continue browsing the site..
Users are then asked to download a file that has a malicious ZIP file to continue browsing, NTT Security Holdings, a Japanese cybersecurity company said in a blog post...
The malicious files are able to avoid detection by Windows by adding scheduled tasks and performing registry modifications in Windows Defender...
Additionally, these files can interfere when downloading genuine Windows Update released by Microsoft, and disrupt the communication of security products with their server by modifying the IP addresses of the HOSTS file (contains mapping of the IP addresses)..
And though most of the compromised websites include ones in Japanese, Spanish, and Korean, NTT warns that the recent inclusion of additional languages may indicate that threat actors plan to target more websites in different languages and its impact may become greater soon..
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