Aussie Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited)
Publisher Information
Aussie Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited) is a software publisher located in Nicosia, Cyprus in CY*. The company is a primary distributor of unwanted software. Part of the Brightcircle group of adware web browser extensions that utilize the Crossrider framework. These extensions are also known as Freven and are designed to utilize the framework in order to inject advertising banners in the underlying web browsers white space or by overlaying new ads over existing ones. Brightcircle distributes its software through malvertising practices such as displaying web pages taht tell the user that various core Windows software is out-dated and needs updating as well as drive-by downloads.
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited
Valid from:
11/16/2014 9:00:00 PM
Valid to:
11/17/2015 8:59:59 PM
Subject:
CN=Aussie Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited), O=Aussie Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited), STREET=Athinodorou 3, STREET=Dasoupoli Strovolos, L=Nicosia, S=Cyprus, PostalCode=2025, C=CY
Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB
Serial number:
685ae12077846353aa542302da532abd
Scanner detections:
Detections (100% detected)
Scan engine
Details
Detections
Reason Heuristics
Adware.Crossrider (M), Adware.BrightCircle (M), PUP.Brightcircle (M)
100.00%
Latest 30 of 10,232 files
The following publishers (by Authenticode signature organization name) are related.
* Note, the details and description above are based on the code signing digital signature issued to Aussie Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited) by COMODO CA Limited on November 16, 2014 with the serial number '685ae12077846353aa542302da532abd'.