VERY IMPORTANT

MediaArena is a piece of software that masks itself as a useful tool but secretly reconfigures some browser settings to steal your search queries. It masks for instance a docx-to-pdf converter, a tool to convert video to animated GIF and so on. Distribution appears to occur via advertisements shown on webpages in an ongoing malvertising campaign. The victim is tricked to click the advert and may install this tool on their workstation. All search queries the victim enters are redirected to a third party where search results are served with ads, and the search queries are collected and sold. This allows bad actors to manipulate search, gather data on your company, inject drive-by downloads in a targeted way and do many other things.