Tag Archives: browsers

Google has become a major presence in our everyday lives. Whether it is our mobile phones, our smart home devices, search engines or email, it’s everywhere. For many people, that works just fine. The services are reliable, some are free, and they do what we need them to do. … Source link

Google plans to revoke others’ Chromium-based browsers’ access to a long list of APIs that power such popular services as bookmark and settings synchronization. “We discovered that some third-party Chromium-based browsers were able to integrate Google features, such as Chrome Sync and Click to Call, that are only intended for Google’s use,” Jochen Eisinger, Chrome engineering director, wrote in a Jan. 15 post to a company blog. Access to what Eisinger labeled “our… Source link

In a report last Thursday, December 10, Microsoft issued a warning to users of four major web browsers, namely, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Yandex Browser, saying that a widespread malware attack is hitting all four. (Photo : Michael Geiger from Pixabay)Microsoft warns of a “persistent malware campaign” that attacks users of four major web browsers. Widespread Malware Campaign In a report by ZDNet, the malware is… Source link

Microsoft on Thursday took the wraps off an ongoing campaign impacting popular web browsers that stealthily injects malware-infested ads into search results to earn money via affiliate advertising. “Adrozek,” as it’s called by the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team, employs an “expansive, dynamic attacker infrastructure” consisting of 159 unique domains, each of which hosts an average of 17,300 unique URLs, which in turn host more than 15,300 unique malware samples. The campaign — which… Source link

An ongoing malware campaign is blasting the Internet with malware that neuters the security of Web browsers, adds malicious browser extensions, and makes other changes to users’ computers, Microsoft said on Thursday. Adrozek, as the software maker has dubbed the malware family, relies on a sprawling distribution network comprising 159 unique domains with each one hosting an average of 17,300 unique URLs. The URLs, in turn, host an average… Source link