Google Confirms Chrome Zero-Day 5 As Attacks Begin, Update Now
As other browsers that are based around the Chromium engine will likely be impacted by the same vulnerabilities, expect updates for the likes of Brave, Edge and Opera to follow in due course.Although nearly all the mainstream media coverage, not just tech publications, has been about the, that doesn't mean the Google Chrome one suddenly becomes unimportant. The fact that the U.S.
The SHARPEXT malware comes by way of, and here's the 'not just vulnerabilities' point, a rogue browser extension. As well as Chrome, the campaign was found to be targeting Edge and a little-known in the West client called Whale, which appears to be used in South Korea. NewKaspersky research reveals extent of malicious browser extension problem
According to Kaspersky research, in the first six months of 2022 alone, some 1,311,557 users attempted to download malicious or unwanted extensions. That, dear reader, is an increase of 70% on the number affected similarly throughout the whole of 2021. While the delivery of unwanted advertising was the most common target of these browser extensions, that's not the whole story: extensions with a malware payload were the second most common.
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