Malicious Extension Grants Threat Actors Remote Access to Google Chrome

Cybersecurity researchers discovered ‘Cloud9’ – a new Chrome browser botnet that uses malicious extensions to steal user credentials, record keystrokes, inject malicious JS code, and ads, and even perform DDoS attacks. Cloud9 botnet acts as a remote access trojan (RAT) for Chromium web browsers such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge and allows the threat […]

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