ThreatsDay: Game Cheat Spyware, 24-Hour Ransomware, Chrome Sync Stalking + 12 More Stories
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A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something that looks close enough
And some are still active in the Microsoft Edge store A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people's data to servers in China. And, according to Koi researchers, five of the extensions with more than 4 million installs are still live in the Edge marketplace.…
While investigating the cyberattacks, researchers uncovered a new spyware product from Memento Labs, the successor to the infamous Hacking Team.
Researchers detected that FreeVPN.One, a longstanding Chrome Web Store VPN extension, recently turned into spyware
Security researchers with The Citizen Lab and Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed today that three zero-days patched by Apple on Thursday were abused as part of an exploit chain to install Cytrox's Predator spyware. [...]
Candiru attackers breached a news agency employee website to target journalists with DevilsTongue spyware, researchers say.