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A password stealing trick masquerades as a Firefox Plugin, to filter ‘sent’ login credentials

December 6th, 2008 admin Leave a comment Go to comments

A new type of malware designed to harvest web passwords has been detected in-the-wild by BitDefender’s antivirus research labs. This latest e-threat – called Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A – is intended to be delivered onto a compromised computer system by other malware for subsequent download into Mozilla Firefox’s Plugin folder. Once installed it gets to work every time Firefox is started.

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Refer: http://www.bitdefender.co.uk/NW900-…..-passwords.html

IT1999: Obviously, we should download plugin or software from authorized website.

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