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The trend of spreading adware, banking Trojans and malicious malware through compromised or fake browser extensions seems to be increasing. Lately, there have been quite a few incidents where malicious extensions were used to spread malware. Cybercriminals are not leaving any stone unturned into hijacking add-ons from popular browsers such as Google Chrome to fulfill […]
A wrapper tool for shadowsocks to consistently bypass firewalls. Quick start Automatically connect The easiest way to run this tool is just type ssct in terminal, and ssct will acquire available shadowsocks servers from ishadowsocks and connect to it automatically. Connect to a specific server First, show all ss servers by –list option. ssct –list […]
Google Aims to Put an End to Secret Cryptojacking by Making In-Browser Permissions Necessary. In-browser cryptocurrency mining has become the latest obsession among website operators as it is being deemed as the perfect alternative to display ads. However, the point of debate is that these miners are being deployed without asking or informing users. On […]
For those who use Adblock Plus alongside with Google Chrome web browser or recently installed its extension, here is some bad news for them. A fraudulent developer cloned fake Adblock Plus extension for Chrome and successfully bypassed Google verification process ending up getting over 37,000 downloads. The extension remained available for download with the original one until it […]
Last week, we told you about The Pirate Bay’s ongoing attempts to use your processor power to mine Monero digital coins. According to the reports, the website was testing the waters for about 24 hours as a future source of income. Now, it’s being reported by gHacks that a popular Chrome extension named SafeBrowse has been […]
It seems like Google is making some serious changes in its products, especially Chrome browser to provide users a smooth experience and better security. Last week, the tech and search engine giant announced that Chrome 63 browser update will come with a security feature that will alert users of ‘man in the middle’ attacks (MitM) while Chrome 64 will automatically block annoying […]
Days of frustratingly loud autoplay ads are numbered – Google to block autoplay videos that annoyed us every time we visited small or popular websites. Are you also annoyed of the auto playback videos that obliterate our eardrums while we surf the net with their insanely loud sound? Isn’t it truly frustrating when all you […]
It looks like Google is finally taking serious measures to secure its most used product the Chrome web browser. The tech giant has announced that upcoming Chrome 63 browser will be equipped with a new security feature aiming to alert users of ‘man in the middle’ attacks (MitM) in which an attacker intercepts communication between two systems. Coming […]
Google Chrome with 2 billion active users is the most used web browser in the world. At the same time, Firefox has over 1 billion active users making these two perfect and lucrative targets for hackers and cyber criminals. Recently, Brad Duncan, an IT security researcher discovered a campaign called “EITest” targeting unsuspecting Chrome users that […]
The Google Chrome extensions hijacked are on the attack with a number of developers being attacked within a month. Nearly two weeks ago, it was reported that unknown attackers could compromise the Chrome Web Store account of a team of developers and sequester the Copyfish extension and then modify it to distribute correspondence from spam […]
Google Chrome Extensions on the Radar of Cybercriminals of late- Security Experts identify seven more extensions to be compromised. Last month we reported that a Google Chrome extension Copyfish had been infected because the developer opened a phishing email using his Google account credentials. At that time we assumed it to be a mistake on […]
Copyfish extension of Google Chrome lets users extract textual content from PDF files, images, and videos. It is a widely used extension having over 37,500 users. Reportedly, this particular extension has been hacked by phishing specialists after they managed to compromise the account of German developer team a9t9 at Chrome Web Store. Copyfish chrome extension [irp […]
Phish creators have recently come across an extension for Google chrome extension to push malware after compromising the Chrome Web Store account of German software developers a9t9 and abused to distribute spam messages to users who are not accusing. Nicknamed Copyfish, Chrome Extension To Push Malware which allows users to extract text from images, PDF, […]
Google has made a conclusive decision on the different dates they want to execute as part of the accord plan in distrusting Symantec SSL Certificates. Security engineers from Google and Firefox engineers discovered that Symantec misissued around 127 SSL certificates, as the investigation progress this underlying estimation developed to an outstanding figure of more than 30,000 […]
Short Bytes: You can block tech rumors, movie spoilers, and big TV show twists on the internet by using content filtering extensions available for different web browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. These extensions and add-ons block movie spoilers based on specific keywords provided by you. People love to drop spoiler bombs minutes after […]
As a punishment announced last October, Google did not trust the Chinese SSL certificate authorities and its subsidiary WoSign StartCom with the release of Chrome 61 for failing to maintain “high expected CA standards”. The move came after Google was notified by the GitHub security team on August 17, 2016, the China Certification Authority WoSign had […]
After the effects of the phishing campaign that used Google Docs as a tool to attack, Google has launched a number of upgrades to Gmail and its browser so that users can be notified and warned of suspicious emails and websites that may contain malware. The new machine-learning model According to Andy Wen, who is […]
In Google Chrome, a visual indicator in the form of a red dot appears on the tab when a website records audio and video from the browser. A Chrome bug was reported to Google by AOL web developer Ran Bar-Zik. He told Bleeping Computer that he had discovered it while checking a website running WebRTC […]
Chrome might have a lurking bug that lets websites record your audio and video content without you even knowing. That is, Chrome usually has a red indicator being displayed in a tab where the video content is being recorded. However, according to a researcher, such an indication may not always be present. The flaw: Ran […]
Online privacy and security have been the focus of debate lately. The new broadband privacy rules signed by President Trump give surveillance agencies and ISPs the right to track your online activities without you ever finding out about it. Talk about online freedom, right? In the wake of increased online hacks and cyber stalking related […]
Google Chrome may not be as safe as it was thought to be. Recently, a security engineer, Bosko Stankovic, found a vulnerability in Google Chrome that hackers can easily exploit to get a user’s credentials such as their username and password and potentially launch SMB relay attacks. It must be noted that WannaCry ransomware attack also […]