Fake popular sites offer a free app, instead take over PCs
A website built to look almost exactly like CNN’s homepage is telling visitors to download “the new CNN app.” But it’s not CNN’s app, and has nothing to do with the news company. The campaign doesn’t stop at CNN. It also uses fake Stremio and Avast installers hosted on similarly convincing lookalike sites, all targeting Windows users. The installers are part of the same campaign to trick people into installing legitimate remote-management software that’s already linked to the attacker’s account…