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4.3 Million Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign | Koi Blog
Submitted 1 day ago by homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.koi.ai/blog/4-million-browsers-infected-inside-shadypanda-7-year-malware-campaign
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db2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
HeerlijkeDrop@thebrainbin.org 22 hours ago
I don't see anything special on this screenshot. Most of the websites display this, at least when you have an European IP. This pop up is only exceptional in that it doesn't lag on my phone, displays correctly and has a "Reject all" button
victorz@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Actually one of the cleaner ones I’ve seen, ngl.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 20 hours ago
So what’s the lesson? How can we trust browser extensions? Ublock could go bad and cook half the globe.
MalMen@masto.pt 19 hours ago
@Fizz @homesweethomeMrL samething with everyrhing we use... You can go gentoo way and compile yourself the software you use, but even that way unless you check every line of code, you are trusting that the code behave the way you supose it does
Fizz@lemmy.nz 13 hours ago
I really dont wanna do that. Firefox should add 3rd party repos so my distro packagers can handle that.
mal3oon@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It’s really unbelievable at this point. It’s like that gentoo, meme, you have to compile your extension from sources. Even worse, as the ‘supply chain’ chain attack in ssh showed, you have to read the code yourself too. I am not sure if Linux becoming popular is a good thing anymore.
SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
TL;Dr: Chrome extensions are sleeper agents, because Chrome doesn’t review updates before pushing them out to users.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 23 hours ago
So, asking the past defenders of such a situation again, was XUL really worse or is it in effect the same?
Except XUL also allowed such customization that very rarely an extension would become as popular as they become now. Fragmentation as a defense.
(That refers to the discussions about Firefox dropping XUL in the past, killing many-many good extensions and ways to make them and alternative browsers built on XULRunner.)