Moviety
Threat Scorecard
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| Ranking: | 7,811 |
| Threat Level: | 50 % (Medium) |
| Infected Computers: | 191 |
| First Seen: | June 3, 2022 |
| Last Seen: | September 9, 2023 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Moviety browser extension presents itself as the perfect browser addition for anyone who loves movies. This is a bold claim and unfortunately, Movies fails to back it up. Indeed, analysis of the app by infosec researchers has determined that Moviety falls into the adware category. While installed on the system, the app will cause various unwanted ads to appear and disrupt the user experience. More importantly, the generated advertisements could promote suspicious or untrustworthy destinations.
Adware apps can try to hide their ads by injecting them into unrelated third-party websites. Interacting with the advertisements could also trigger forced redirects leading to equally as questinable pages. Users could be taken to phishing portals, platforms spreading intrusive PUPs (Potentially Unwanted Programs), or even compromised websites.
In addition, adware, browser hijackers, and PUPs, in general, are known for having data-harvesting capabilities. The operators of such invasive programs oftentimes go after users' browsing information by accessing the browsing history, search history, clicked URLs, IP address, and more. In the riskiest cases, the PUP may even try to obtain sensitive information stored into the browser's autofill data. Typically, this feature is used to save account credentials, banking details, payment information, credit/debit card numbers, etc.
