Rogue extensions that hijack Chrome & Firefox are near impossible to remove

Saturday, January 20th, 2018

As discovered by Malwarebytes researcher Pieter Arntz, a new pair of extensions plaguing Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox can hijack the browsers in order to push technical support scams at you and potentially even spy on your browsing activities. Called "Tiempo en colombia en vivo" on the Chrome Web Store, the ...

uBlock Origin released as a pure WebExtension for Firefox

Friday, September 1st, 2017

A new WebExtension version of the popular content blocker uBlock Origin was just uploaded to Mozilla's official add-ons repository for Firefox. The new version is compatible with Firefox's new WebExtensions standard for extensions, and will as such continue to work when Firefox 57 gets released. This first official release of the WebExtensions ...

Mozilla and Tor release urgent update for Firefox 0-day under active attack

Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

Developers with both Mozilla and Tor have published browser updates that patch a critical Firefox vulnerability being actively exploited to deanonymize people using the privacy service. "The security flaw responsible for this urgent release is already actively exploited on Windows systems," a Tor official wrote in an advisory published Wednesday afternoon. ...

NoScript and other popular Firefox add-ons open millions to new attack

Tuesday, April 5th, 2016

NoScript, Firebug, and other popular Firefox add-on extensions are opening millions of end users to a new type of attack that can surreptitiously execute malicious code and steal sensitive data, a team of researchers reported. The attack is made possible by a lack of isolation in Firefox among various add-ons installed ...

How to avoid the latest LastPass Phishing Attack

Saturday, January 16th, 2016

Sean Cassidy discovered recently that the popular password manager LastPass is vulnerable to a  phishing attack that takes advantage of the way messages are displayed to users of the service. The method that he describes on his blog works in Google Chrome, and to a degree in Firefox as well. The main ...