[Trend]Malicious Chrome Extensions Found in Chrome Web Store, Form Droidclub Botnet

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Malicious Chrome Extensions Found in Chrome Web Store, Form Droidclub Botnet

The Trend Micro Cyber Safety Solutions team has discovered a new botnet delivered via Chrome extensions that affects more than half a million users. (The malicious extension is detected as BREX_DCBOT.A.) This botnet was used to inject ads and cryptocurrency mining code into websites the victim would visit. We have dubbed this particular botnet Droidclub, after the name of one of the oldest command-and-control (C&C) domains used.

Post from: Trendlabs Security Intelligence Blog - by Trend Micro

Malicious Chrome Extensions Found in Chrome Web Store, Form Droidclub Botnet

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