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A week in security (February 17 – 23)

February 24, 2020 0 Comments A week in security, awis, BlueKeep, catfishing, Chrome Extension, crypto scams, deepfakes, elections, epic games, firmware, idaas, identity-as-a-service, jamila kaya, lokibot, Ransomware, scammers, twitter, voatz, week in security, weekly blog roundup, youtube hack

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:32:34 +0000

A roundup of the previous week’s most notable security stories and events, including cloud identity management, a noteworthy Twitter scam-tastrophy, RobbinHood ransomware, and more.

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A week in security

Tags: awis BlueKeep catfishing Chrome Extension Crypto scams deepfakes elections epic games firmware IDaaS identity-as-a-service Jamila Kaya LokiBot ransomware scammers twitter Voatz week in security weekly blog roundup YouTube hack

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Security Sophos

Google pulls 500 malicious Chrome extensions after researcher tip-off

February 17, 2020 0 Comments browser security, chrome, Chrome Extension, chrome store, duo security, Google, Google Chrome, jamila kaya, malicious extensions, security threats, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:07:48 +0000

Google has abruptly pulled over 500 Chrome extensions from its Web Store that researchers discovered were stealing browsing data and executing click fraud and malvertising.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/izP6lapUPOU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

Fraud spike prompts Chrome developer lock-out

January 29, 2020 0 Comments browser extension, chrome, chrome developers, Chrome Extension, chrome web store, chromium, Google, Google Chrome, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:17:56 +0000

Google Chrome extension developers have been left high and dry for weeks as the company struggles to cope with a spike in fraud on the Chrome Web Store.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/LoRzNY2ZY7s” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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QxSearch hijacker fakes failed installs

August 16, 2019 0 Comments bigsrch.xyz, Chrome Extension, PUPs, Qxsearch, search hijackers

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 21:06:16 +0000

QxSearch is a group of search hijackers that try to make the user think the install failed or was incomplete. Is it that they don’t want to be found and removed? Or just bad programming?

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PUPs

Tags: bigsrch.xyz Chrome Extension Qxsearch search hijackers

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