If you stumble upon a website asking you to download the latest update for the Adobe Flash Player – maybe think twice, as a new campaign to distribute a malicious browser add-on for Chromium-based browsers has been discovered by cybersecurity researchers from ZimperiumThe experts warn that the only thing you’ll be downloading is the Cloud9 browser botnet that can do all kinds of nasty things through the Chromium browser (opens in new tab). According to their research, Cloud9 is an add-on that can do various malicious acts, such as stealing online accounts, logging keystrokes, silently loading ads, and using the browser in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS (opens in new tab)) attacks.  Should it be allowed to do so, the add-on will also abuse various exploits to drop additional malware to the target endpoint, becoming even more dangerous.
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