Cyber experts warn of new Google Chrome, Microsoft Word money-stealing malware

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It poses to be fake updates in internet browsers like Chrome and mimics programs like Microsoft Word — all to coerce users into downloading a harmful series of code.

Since March, online protection firm Proofpoint has flagged an ongoing nefarious campaign seeing “cybercriminal threat actors adopting new, varied, and increasingly creative attack chains.”. From there, the delayed, Trojan Horse-esque attack has access to cryptocurrencies and other sensitive files and personal information.

“Word Online’ extension is not installed,” one read along with phony buttons to click on to “fix” it. “The social engineering in the fake error messages is clever and purports to be an authoritative notification coming from the operating system,” Proofpoint noted. Florida family robbed while dropping son off at California college — now plans to pull him from school: 'It's not safe here'Legendary Post columnist Cindy Adams honored at Gracie Awards Luncheon in NYC for her WABC radio showThe 23 best mineral sunscreens of 2024, per dermatologists and skin health experts

 

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