Windows Movie Maker died in January, but an impostor has risen: one of the top search results on Google for “Windows Movie Maker” leads to a scam version of the video editor that aims to steal your money. The fake software comes from the website windows-movie-maker.org. It ranks just above a link from Microsoft’s store website that also points to a fake.



As a consequence of the website’s high search engine ranking, the crooks behind the scam have managed to reach a global “audience”, with the modified Windows Movie Maker emerging among the most prevalent threats in ESET’s telemetry in the past few days. On November 5, 2017, Win32/Hoax.MovieMaker was the third most detected threat worldwide and the number one threat in Israel. As of November 6, our telemetry recorded many detections in the Philippines, in Israel, Finland and Denmark.

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