Firefox browser is actively used by scammers. With their extensions, they spoil the search mechanism. Dozens of fake cryptocurrency wallets, which are indistinguishable from their nominally legitimate analogues, flooded the recovery repository.
Firefox browser, Xrust testifies, came under a coordinated campaign with the past April. It appeared fake versions of popular cryptocurns — Coinbase, Ethereum, Metamask. Fraudsters take copies of open source wallet programs and insert malicious code.
Fake versions of the wallets will steal user data-first of all, access to real cryptocurrency-allowing supposedly Russian-speaking hackers to drain legitimate crypto-accounts.
copied names and logos, fake review imitation of these versions of cryptocurrency wallets. Of course, Mozilla has automated systems to prevent malicious extensions in the repository. However, these systems seem to be overloaded, and as of this week at least 40 fakes passed through them.
Even after the cryptocurrency boom has come to naught, hundreds of billions of dollars are still frozen in Bitcoin and its numerous alternatives.
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