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This nasty Google Chrome extension is after your crypto and your passwords

Posted on November 30, 2022August 27, 2023 By bot

A particularly nasty crypto-stealing malware has gotten a facelift to make it even more dangerous, researchers have claimed. Cybersecurity experts from Avast have warned the ViperSoftX Windows malware, a JavaScript-based RAT that’s been around for more than two years, has been upgraded to also install a Chrome browser (opens in new tab) add-on. Usually, ViperSoftX would monitor the clipboard contents of the infected endpoint, and if it spots the victim copying and pasting a cryptocurrency wallet address, it would replace the one from the clipboard, with the one belonging to the attackers.
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