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Chrome extensions - Discovery of a Massive Surveillance Campaign
GHARIB posted a topic in Technology
HIGHLIGHTS: - More than 33 million downloads - 111 malicious or fake Chrome extensions (from the GOOGLE Official Store - removed in JUNE 2020) - 15,160 malicious/suspicious domains MILLIONS of Google Chrome users may have had their intimate web browsing history hacked as security experts discover malicious spyware extensions, which have been downloaded more than 30 million times. Exemple of FAKE extension (infected): Discovered by Awake Security Team, these 3 months they have harvested 111 malicious or fake Chrome extensions using GalComm domains for attacker command and control infrastructure and/or as loader pages for the extensions. These extensions can take screenshots, read the clipboard, harvest credential tokens stored in cookies or parameters, grab user keystrokes (like passwords), etc. After analyzing more than 100 networks across financial services, oil and gas, media and entertainment, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, retail, high-tech, higher education and government organizations, Awake discovered that the actors behind these activities have established a persistent foothold in almost every network. Fortunately, these were live until May 2020 when they were finally reported to Google by the researchers and got removed from the Chrome store. For further information: https://awakesecurity.com/white-papers/the-internets-new-arms-dealers-malicious-domain-registrars/
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ADDED 1 Nov 2021, this is a moot problem now, as I had a very strange Windows crash some 3 weeks ago and had to reset my system (the only option, given the limited tools that were still working for me ). I am slowly recovering things. One strange thing now is that I have two versions of Edge on my Taskbar: one that was installed via a 1607 DVD (I presume, which was the only ISO that would work ??? ) and one that Update installed, it seems. 😄 😄 😄 @GHARIB reminded me of this post via his reaction a short time ago. I now wonder if this problem was a pre-crash symptom. Thanks for the reminder, Kameraden! I am still having troubles with my very cautions attempts at a fix. @RainierWolfcastle is helping me along. First Principle = Save the Data! (I thought that I had a lot better backup system than I did, especially for passwords, which are scattered about casually.) ADDED (as below) Found out that none of my Taskbar-browser icons will open Private Modes. I have Opera in a tab on my Windows 10 taskbar. Right-clicking on it shows the menu as in the SS below. Left-clicking on the "new private window" should open Opera in Private Mode, but it quit doing so a couple of days ago. Right-clicking on the choice opens the 'open' tab, which does not work, either. One can open the 'normal' Opera and then select 'private mode' from the menu, or use ctrl-shift N to pop it up. I did not want to invoke the whole "many-tabs" Opera that I have been using just to use Private Mode for a short time. 😄 I did some research and found no direct fix, but did find out how to open-private-mode from a shortcut. The problem with the example that I found is that it did not work. It opened Normal Opera and tried to open a strange, non-existent address! I changed the "-" in the example to a "/" and now it works. I made a shortcut to "Launcher.exe" in the Opera Program folder and put it on my desktop. I edited the shortcut to put the following line into the "target" window. "C:\Program Files\Opera\launcher.exe" /private Now I will have to "roam" my registry and see what I can see. 😄 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Searching for "Opera" in the Registry taught me that many, many entries of "operation" appears in it. 😄 /moved from "Technology" forum. 🙄
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1) My pc has 8 GB of RAM I am not using 4 and the task manager already says that I am over 90% why that happends and how can I solve it? 2) WTF is happening with chrome, I have 19 tabs open only 1 video playing and already it is consuming 3GB of RAM. Is that normal? am I being attacked by virus/malware/spies?
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I updated to Chrome 52 (32-bit) yesterday and almost instantly discovered that the "use backspace to return to prior page" did not work anymore. They did this because some people have "hit backspace accidentally" and lost data that they had entered into a form. We can hold the ALT key and press either the left or right arrow keys to navigate back and forth. Clicking on the arrow tag on top left of screen works, too.
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