Cybersecurity: Beware of pop-up adverts
Cybercriminals are now targeting online users through the add-ons that pop up on their digital screens with experts warning that threats have risen.
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Cybercriminals are now targeting online users through the add-ons that pop up on their digital screens with experts warning that threats have risen.
Kaspersky researchers have analysed the risks innocent-looking browser extensions pose to users and the activities of cybercriminals hiding threats under add-ons. In the first half of 2022, more than 4,000 users were affected by threats, hiding in browser extensions, at least once, which is over 19 per cent of the number of users affected by the same threat throughout the whole of 2021 - with still another half of the year to go.
Cyber-security researchers said on Thursday that more than 1.3 million users were affected by threats hiding in browser extensions in the first half of 2022.The figure is over 70 per cent of the number of users affected by the same threat ...
From January 2020 to June 2022, Kaspersky experts observed more than 4.3 million unique users faced adware hiding in browser extensions, , browser extension threats, report, kaspersky
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