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SEO Poisoning Targets Chinese Windows Users at Scale

🔍 Security researchers at FortiGuard Labs uncovered an SEO poisoning campaign that manipulated search results to steer Chinese-speaking Microsoft Windows users to spoofed download sites. Attackers registered lookalike domains and used subtle character substitutions to present compromised installers that bundled legitimate apps with hidden malware such as Hiddengh0st and Winos. The operation used a redirection script known as nice.js, anti-analysis checks in components like EnumW.dll, and persistence mechanisms including registry changes and TypeLib hijacking. FortiGuard warns the final payloads supported monitoring, keystroke and clipboard capture, Telegram interception, and cryptocurrency wallet theft.