108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Steal Google and Telegram Data, Affecting 20,000 Users

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign in which a cluster of 108 Google Chrome extensions has been found to communicate with the same command-and-control C2 infrastructure with the goal of collecting user data and enabling browser-level abuse by injecting ads and arbitrary...

Widespread malware campaign seeks to silently inject ads into search results, affects multiple browsers

A persistent malware campaign has been actively distributing an evolved browser modifier malware at scale since at least May 2020. At its peak in August, the threat was observed on over 30,000 devices every day. The malware is designed to inject ads into search engine results pages. The threat...

Widespread malware campaign seeks to silently inject ads into search results, affects multiple browsers

A persistent malware campaign has been actively distributing an evolved browser modifier malware at scale since at least May 2020. At its peak in August, the threat was observed on over 30,000 devices every day. The malware is designed to inject ads into search engine results pages. The threat...

Widespread Malvertising Campaign Hijacks 300 Million Sessions

A massive malvertising campaign targeting iOS devices hijacked a whopping 300 million browser sessions in just 48 hours. Researchers at Confiant recorded the campaign Nov. 12, and said that the threat actor behind the campaign is still active to this day. A malicious landing page According to...

Hackers Hijacked Chrome Extension for Web Developers With Over 1 Million Users

From past few years, spammers and cyber criminals were buying web extensions from their developers and then updating them without informing their users to inject bulk advertisements into every website user visits in order to generate large revenue. But now they have shifted their business...

Chinese ISPs Caught Injecting Ads and Malware into Web Pages

China has gained a considerable global attention when it comes to their Internet policies in the past years; whether it's introducing its own search engine dubbed "Baidu," Great Firewall of China, its homebrew China Operating System COP and many more. Along with the developments, China has long...

Firefox Add-on Spies on Google Search Results

Security researchers have intercepted a fake Flash Player update creating a Firefox add-on that spies on the user’s Google search results. The malicious Firefox extension, called “Adobe Flash Player 0.2,” injects ads into the user’s Google search results pages and even has the capability to monit...