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Browser monitoring kit discovered for dozens of Chinese websites

August 19, 2021
Source: sproutwired.com sproutwired.com
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Users who set their language setting in their browser to Chinese and who visited popular Chinese websites in the past few months were at risk of being spied upon. An IT security expert with the pseudonym Imp0rtp3 has found a “Tetris” framework for large-scale web attacks with which to exploit security gaps on 58 popular portals. Of these, 57 are in Chinese. The only English language offering affected is the New York Times website. attackers could According to the researcher’s analysis They also abuse legitimate browser functions with the tool to collect keystrokes from the user, a variety of operating...
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