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Critical Firefox 0-Day Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser Now!

Attention! Are you using Firefox as your web browsing software on your Windows, Linux, or Mac systems? If yes, you should immediately update your free and open-source Firefox web browser to the latest version available on Mozilla's website. Why the urgency? Mozilla earlier today released  Firefox 72.0.1  and  Firefox ESR 68.4.1  versions to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability in its browsing software that an undisclosed group of hackers is actively exploiting in the wild. Tracked as ' CVE-2019-17026 ,' the bug is a critical 'type confusion vulnerability' that resides in the IonMonkey just-in-time (JIT) compiler of the Mozilla's JavaScript engine SpiderMonkey. In general, a type confusion vulnerability occurs when the code doesn't verify what objects it is passed to and blindly uses it without checking its type, allowing attackers to crash the application or achieve code execution. Without revealing details about the security flaw and any ...

New Spying on Chrome and Firefox Browser by extension Avast and AVG Browsers

If your Firefox or Chrome browser has any of the below-listed four extensions offered by Avast and its subsidiary AVG installed, you should disable or remove them as soon as possible. Avast Online Security AVG Online Security Avast SafePrice AVG SafePrice Why? Because these four widely installed browser extensions have been caught collecting a lot more data on its millions of users than they are intended to, including your detailed browsing history. Most of you might not even remember downloading and installing these extensions on your web browser, and that's likely because when users install Avast or AVG antivirus on their PCs, the software automatically installs their respective add-ons on the users' browsers. Both online security extensions have been designed to warn users when they visit a malicious or phishing website; whereas, SafePrice extensions help online shoppers learn about best offers, price comparisons, travel deals, and discount coupons from various ...

Steals Chrome and Firefox Browsers Data , Newly Evolved Malware Attack Drops Double Remote Access Trojan in Windows

Researchers discovered a new  malware  campaign that drops two different Remote Access Trojan(RAT) on targeted Windows systems and steal sensitive information from popular browsers such as Chrome and Firefox. The samples that uncovered by Fortinet researchers drop the RevengeRAT and WSHRAT malware and it has various obfuscation functionalities that use the various stage to maintain the persistence. RAR’s Infection Process RevengeRAT The RAT has infected the victims by utilizing the different stages. When opening the malicious sample file, it contained JavaScript code in a text editor with encoded data. Once decoded its drops the VBScript code is responsible for drop the next stage of malware. The dropper then later download the second stage of malicious downloader( “A6p.vbs” file) from the external website which also contains an obfuscated strings to avoid detection. If the downloader script will be successfully executed then it establishes a connection with...

Speed-Up Your Firefox

                                 ..::Speed-Up Your Firefox::.. How to Boost Speed of Firefox 400x Faster ? How to boost the speed of firefox 400x faster. Just follow these steps. 1-open firefox 2-write (about: config) in the address bar & hit the enter.a message prompt will be apear.again hit enter. 3-now in the blank row type network 4-change the value of max.pipelining request to 500 5-network max connections-48 6-network max.conn.per server-16 7-network.prefetch-next-false. now close the firefox & open it again.fill the address of any site & see how much you have boost your internet browsing speed . ..  ... . . .