![]() Zemot was added to the Malicious Software Removal Tool by Microsoft earlier this month. If the PC was indeed running old or unpatched software, then it would download the Zemot trojan, detected as, which is designed to drop additional malware onto a user's machine. It would then check a victim’s machine to see if it was running out-of-date versions of Flash, IE or Adobe software. Malicious ads on the site were redirecting users to sites hosting the Nuclear exploit kit. The firm first discovered something was wrong late last week when its honeypots picked up malicious activity coming from the Times of Israel website. Google’s popular DoubleClick ad network has been hijacked by malvertisers looking to infect vulnerable machines with trojan malware, according to researchers at Malwarebytes.
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