A widespread browser extension campaign is quietly compromising users by disguising data-stealing tools as TikTok video downloaders. “While many people see browser extensions as harmless little widgets, oftentimes they have no idea who is actually behind these extensions, and what capabilities they contain within their source code,” said Natalie Zargarov, security researcher at LayerX in…
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Pretend Disk Format: PDFs harbor new dangers
A particularly insidious phishing campaign is disguising malware pretending to be ordinary PDF documents behind links to virtual hard disks. Because workers are used to receiving purchase orders or invoices in the PDF format, they are likely to open the malicious files unthinkingly, enabling the malware they contain — in this case AsyncRAT, a remote-access…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security
Pretend Disk Format: PDFs harbor new dangers
A particularly insidious phishing campaign is disguising malware pretending to be ordinary PDF documents behind links to virtual hard disks. Because workers are used to receiving purchase orders or invoices in the PDF format, they are likely to open the malicious files unthinkingly, enabling the malware they contain — in this case AsyncRAT, a remote-access…