PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social to cybersecurity@infosec.pubEnglish · 2 days agoStealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spywarego.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down13
arrow-up1102arrow-down1external-linkStealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spywarego.theregister.comPhilipTheBucket@piefed.social to cybersecurity@infosec.pubEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareNighed@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoIt’s not that it can’t be done then, most likely no one has checked. Buying out solo deved apps to host malware has been a thing for ages.
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoYep, you could theoretically do a similar sleeper malware as extension for Firefox based browsers. But that is not what this article is about. No where in this article is anything about a Firefox based browser mentioned. So, again, go back your original comment on my comment. You tried to put a bunch of words in my mouth, now you’re trying to argue hypotheticals based on conjecture. Are you trying to make some kind of point? Or just waste the time of anyone bothering to read this?
minus-squareNighed@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoMy point was basically that this can happen to you too, and if it couldn’t, people would complain anyway. No need to call people morons over it.
It’s not that it can’t be done then, most likely no one has checked.
Buying out solo deved apps to host malware has been a thing for ages.
Yep, you could theoretically do a similar sleeper malware as extension for Firefox based browsers.
But that is not what this article is about.
No where in this article is anything about a Firefox based browser mentioned.
So, again, go back your original comment on my comment.
You tried to put a bunch of words in my mouth, now you’re trying to argue hypotheticals based on conjecture.
Are you trying to make some kind of point?
Or just waste the time of anyone bothering to read this?
My point was basically that this can happen to you too, and if it couldn’t, people would complain anyway.
No need to call people morons over it.