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Malicious Extension Abuses Chrome Sync To Steal Users’ Data The Google Chrome Sync feature can be abused by threat actors to harvest information from compromised computers using maliciously-crafted Chrome browser extensions. Google’s infrastructure is also up for misuse as a command-and-control (C2) communication channel to exfiltrate the stolen data to attacker-controlled servers as security consultant Bojan Zdrnja discovered. Chrome
Google Fixes Chrome Zero-Day Actively Exploited In The Wild Google has addressed an actively exploited zero-day security vulnerability in the Chrome 88.0.4324.150 version released today, February 4th, 2020, to the Stable desktop channel for Windows, Mac, and Linux users. “Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2021-21148 exists in the wild,” the Google Chrome 88.0.4324.150 announcement reads. This version
Beware: Malicious Home Depot Ad Gets Top Spot In Google Search A malicious Home Depot advertising campaign is redirect Google search visitors to tech support scams. Malicious Google search ads are nothing new, with campaigns for Amazon Prime, PayPal, and eBay seen in the past. As these ads look like legitimate campaigns for the company, including showing their standard
Google Chrome Blocks 7 More Ports To Stop NAT Slipstreaming Attacks Google Chrome now blocks access to websites on an additional seven TCP ports to protect against the NAT Slipstreaming 2.0 vulnerability. As a way to reduce the amount of public IP addresses and to increase security, a feature called Network Address Translation (NAT) is available