It is touted as the 5th largest search engine in the world. It is mostly a Russian company and owns the largest search engine on the Internet in the Russian language, with a market share of over 52%. Yandex on the other hand is a multinational corporation providing over 70 internet-related services. They are the third-largest mobile game developer in the world.
WHO OWNS PLAYRIX GAMES FOR FREE
They are responsible for free mobile games such as Fishdom, Gardenscapes, and even Township for iOS and Android. Playrix is a legitimate, non-malicious mobile gaming business.
We pose this question right up front: If your employees are engaging their social media games on their personal devices via your provisioned free WiFi or via company resources, are you comfortable with the redirected connections to domains associated with hosting malware? It’s an extremely frustrating case as well because various INFOSEC and domain rating websites continue to waver on whether these sites are malicious in nature. While at Black Hat USA 2021 we announced that our threat detection team discovered and documented suspicious behavior on two popular websites (Playrixcom and a subdomain of Yandexcom) that are hosted in Russia and expose unknowing visitors to malware downloads. You can often read about the authors, but nothing really says what happens when you engage the app from any device or platform. One of the most deceiving things about mobile apps, and social media apps is that you’re never really sure where they come from.
Do you know who your mobile games talk to?