Blondie Project (Bright Circle Investments Ltd)
Publisher Information
Blondie Project (Bright Circle Investments Ltd) is a software developer located in Nicosia, 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:
12/15/2014 10:00:00 PM
Valid to:
12/16/2015 9:59:59 PM
Subject:
CN=Blondie Project (Bright Circle Investments Ltd), O=Blondie Project (Bright Circle Investments Ltd), STREET=Athinodorou 3, STREET=Dasoupoli Strovolos, L=Nicosia, S=Nicosia, PostalCode=2025, C=CY
Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB
Serial number:
0903cc287c7eea81d3c21dbb234d320c
Scanner detections:
Detections (100% detected)
Scan engine
Details
Detections
Reason Heuristics
Adware.Crossrider (M), Adware.BrightCircle (M), PUP.Brightcircle (M)
100.00%
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 Blondie Project (Bright Circle Investments Ltd) by COMODO CA Limited on December 15, 2014 with the serial number '0903cc287c7eea81d3c21dbb234d320c'.