Infostealer Adrozek malware hits Firefox, Chrome, Yandex, Edge browser

By Sudais Asif
Adrozek malware was identified by Microsoft and since May 2020 over 30,000 users have been infected. Find out how.
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Scammers use Chrome, Firefox extensions in widespread ad fraud campaign

Security experts at Microsoft on Thursday detailed how internet attackers are abusing some of the world’s most popular web browsers for a fraud campaign, which at its height has affected more than 30,000 devices per day. The scammers are using malicious browser extensions— a tried and tested fraud tactic — to inject bogus advertisements into the results displayed on a search engine page. The more users who visit the fraudulent ad pages, the more money the perpetrators earn via a traffic-driven advertising program. Microsoft did not identify who was responsible for the attacks, or how much money they had netted. The malicious campaign, which Microsoft said began in May, uses extensions on popular web browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Russian-language Yandex to reach as many internet users as possible. “[T]he fact that this campaign utilizes a piece of malware that affects multiple browsers is an indication of how […]

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Gestión de múltiples navegadores: simple con Browser Security Plus

Una encuesta realizada por Gartner reveló que el 74 por ciento de las empresas trasladaron al menos al cinco por ciento de su fuerza laboral a posiciones permanentemente remotas después de COVID-19. Adaptarse a una cultura de trabajo remoto es …
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Mozilla Says It Will Be Victimized by U.S. Action Against Google

Mozilla relies on Google for most if not all of its revenues, so the firm is predictably worried about the search giant’s antitrust issues.
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