Malicious Chrome Extensions Archives - Hack Ware News https://hackwarenews.com/tag/malicious-chrome-extensions/ News, ethical hacking, cyber crime, network security Sun, 07 Oct 2018 11:07:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 7 Malicious Chrome Extensions spreading via Facebook Caught Stealing Passwords https://hackwarenews.com/7-malicious-chrome-extensions-spreading-via-facebook-caught-stealing-passwords/ https://hackwarenews.com/7-malicious-chrome-extensions-spreading-via-facebook-caught-stealing-passwords/#comments Sat, 12 May 2018 00:07:23 +0000 https://hackwarenews.com/?p=4499 7 Malicious Chrome Extensions spreading via Facebook Caught Stealing Passwords. One of the most common of cybercriminals  to spread malware is to attract users on on social media platform to visit sites that look legitimate and popup a chrome extension installation windows. Click fraud, cryptocurrency miners, malicious browser extension stealing social media credentials is the […]

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7 Malicious Chrome Extensions spreading via Facebook Caught Stealing Passwords. One of the most common of cybercriminals  to spread malware is to attract users on on social media platform to visit sites that look legitimate and popup a chrome extension installation windows.

Click fraud, cryptocurrency miners, malicious browser extension stealing social media credentials is the malware called Nigelthorn , that is fast spreading via socially engineered links on Facebook. Since it started this year in March, it managed to infect 100K users globally.

Fist discovered by researches at Radware, when a “protected” network of one of its customers got affected, Nigelthorn was spread via various (at least 7) Chrome browser extensions, hosted on official Chrome Web store.

7 Malicious Chrome Extensions spreading via Facebook Caught Stealing Passwords

7 Malicious Chrome Extensions spreading via Facebook Caught Stealing Passwords

 

 

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