Cyberhackers Just Turned 150 Browser Extensions Into Viruses - Here's How

Cyberhackers Just Turned 150 Browser Extensions Into Viruses - Here's How

ShadyPanda, a Chinese hacker group operated several legitimate browser extensions for years before weaponizing them to collect its users' web browsing data.

DarkSpectre Hackers Spread Malware To 8.8 Million Chrome, Edge, and Firefox Users

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cyber Press: A newly uncovered Chinese threat group, DarkSpectre, has been linked to one of the most widespread browser-extension malware operations to date, compromising more than 8.8 million users of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera over the past seven years. According to research by Koi.ai, the group operates three interconnected campaigns: ShadyPanda, GhostPoster, and a newly identified one named The …

DarkSpectre Browser Extension Campaigns Exposed After Impacting 8.8 Million Users Worldwide

The threat actor behind two malicious browser extension campaigns, ShadyPanda and GhostPoster, has been attributed to a third attack campaign codenamed DarkSpectre that has impacted 2.2 million users of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox. The activity is assessed to be the work of a Chinese threat actor that Koi Security is tracking under the moniker DarkSpectre. In all, the