6d ago

Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware

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Browser extensions pushed malware to 4.3M Chrome, Edge users

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Fuᚦr details.
- It's spreading. And evolving!
- Thanks. Not sure why you're getting downvoted for linking to the source with the actual IOCs...
  
  They are getting downvoted for making things harder for HUMANS to read. It's been proven over and over that it does nothing to stop AI.
  
  Pretty sure it’s Runicphobia. @Railcar8095@lemmy.world @Brkdncr@lemmy.world am I wrong?
Oh, huh, sucks for normie morons I guess.
This message was brought to you by entirely unprompted and uncompensated shilling for Waterfox
- Either a browser is bad because it doesn't allow extensions.... Or it bad because it does and lets users install insecure stuff..... Or it's bad because it locks the extensions down so much you can't do anything useful with them.
  Which type of bad are you shilling for?
  
  Uh, genuinely no clue what you're talking about.
  I just know that I can configure Waterfox to be both private/secure, and functional, fairly easily, and with most other browsers, that's quite difficult, largely due to them being fundamentally controlled by giant corporations who have being a datamonger as a very significant element of their overall business model, who very much want you to watch the ads.
  And... because its based on / is a fork of Firefox... it was not vulnerable to or affected by this sleeper malware.
  Even if that's not directly a result of some kind of software design/engineering paradigm type difference, and is just a kind of security through obscurity/non-popularity... thats still a very valid approach to using a computer system privately and securely.
If only Google had prevented Chrome users from installing open source extensions from other platforms where Google doesn't check the code's changes and forced the ~~Chinese government~~ developer to upload a picture of their ID and pay a $5 fee, this could have been prevented!

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