Credit to Author: Alanna Titterington| Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 15:59:36 +0000
Stealing cryptocurrency, hijacking accounts in games and social networks, manipulating search results, and other dirty tricks of malicious browser extensions in 2023.
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Credit to Author: Alanna Titterington| Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:07:54 +0000
How attackers steal Facebook Ads and Business accounts with Ducktail malware (with infected archives and a malicious browser extension).
Read moreThe ongoing struggle between YouTube and ad blockers is turning ugly. Users are left with the choice between paying for Premium or watching ads.
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Credit to Author: Alanna Titterington| Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:07:17 +0000
Dozens of malicious extensions were found in Google’s Chrome Web Store, with around 87 million downloads in total.
Read moreCategories: News Tags: typosquatting Tags: sniffies Tags: extensions Tags: fake av Tags: screen locker Tags: advertising Tags: PUP.Optional.AdMax A researcher found a list of over 50 shady domains based on spelling variations of the brand name Sniffies. |
The post Hookup site targeted by typo-squatters appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Anastasia Starikova| Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 17:13:39 +0000
We explain why browser extensions can be dangerous, as exemplified by the most common families of malicious extensions.
Read moreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:58:06 +0000
The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has warned that attackers are increasingly leveraging Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions as covert backdoors into servers.
The post IIS extensions are on the rise as backdoors to servers appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:45:38 +0000
We look at a new project which uses several techniques to determine which Chrome extensions are being used on a device.
The post You can be tracked online using your Chrome browser extensions appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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