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SpookJS Attack Allows to Bypass Site Isolation In Google Chrome

ByVladimir KrasnogolovySeptember 14, 2021

A group of scientists from universities in Australia, Israel and the United States have presented a side-channel attack that allows recovering data from Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers protected by the Site Isolation function. The attack is dubbed Spook.js (or

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Google fixed another major vulnerability in the V8 engine

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyApril 28, 2021

A series of feverish fixes for problems in Google Chrome continues, this time Google has fixed a major vulnerability related to the operation of the JavaScript engine V8 in the browser. The vulnerability that received an identificatory number CVE-2021-21227 and was assessed

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyDecember 15, 2020

Earlier this year, Google Chrome developers announced about adding of a so-called heavy ad blocker. This is a mechanism that will detect and unload advertisements that consume too many system resources (creating unnecessary load on the processor, network bandwidth, and so

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Google Chrome fixed second 0-day vulnerability in two weeks

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyNovember 3, 2020

Google developers have released Chrome version 86.0.4240.183 for Windows, Mac and Linux, which fixed 10 different problems. The update also includes a patch for a 0-day vulnerability in Google Chrome, which hackers are already actively using. The bug was identified as

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Google engineers fixed Chrome 0-day vulnerability that was already under attacks

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyOctober 21, 2020

Google engineers have released an updated version of Google Chrome (86.0.4240.111) and warn that they have fixed in browser 0-day vulnerability that has been already under active attacks. The error was discovered internally by Google Project Zero. It is identified as

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295 Chrome extensions injected ads in search results

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyAugust 5, 2020

AdGuard analysts have identified 295 malicious extensions in the Chrome Web Store that have been installed over 80,000,000 times. These Chrome browser extensions injected ads into Google and Bing search results. Most of the dangerous extensions masked themselves as ad

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Experts discovered Chrome largest spyware installation campaign

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJune 18, 2020

Specialists from the company Awake Security reported about currently perhaps the largest spyware campaign for installing spyware in Google Chrome. As part of the campaign, criminals registered thousands of domains and used extensions in Chrome to install malware on

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Mandrake malware was hiding on Google Play for more than four years

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyMay 15, 2020

Bitdefender experts found Mandrake spyware in the official Android app store, hiding on Google Play for four years (since 2016). The malware established full control over infected devices, collected credentials, GPS from infected devices, made screen recordings, and so on.

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Due to the pandemic Google developers re-enabled FTP support for Chrome

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyApril 15, 2020

Most recently, I wrote that Firefox developers plan to remove from their browser support for the FTP protocol, as consider it to be unsafe. At the same time, Google re-enabled FTP support for Chrome. Google developers have been talking about abandoning FTP since 2014, since

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Shitcoin Wallet for Google Chrome steals cryptocurrency passwords and keys

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJanuary 2, 2020

One of the extensions for Google Chrome, Shitcoin Wallet injects a special JavaScript code into web pages. Using this code, attackers steal passwords and private keys from cryptocurrency wallets and services. The first problematic addon appeared on December 9th. The