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There\u2019s a nasty new form of Malware making the rounds that targets Chrome users, so if that\u2019s your browser of choice, be warned that if you\u2019re not careful, you could wind up with a lot more than you bargained for.<\/p>\nThere\u2019s a nasty new form of Malware making the rounds that targets Chrome users, so if that\u2019s your browser of choice, be warned that if you\u2019re not careful, you could wind up with a lot more than you bargained for.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how the new attack works:<\/p>\n
If you go to a website that doesn\u2019t display text properly, you may get a popup telling you that the font can\u2019t be displayed, instructing you to download a Chrome font pack. The exact verbage is \u201cThe Hoefler Text font wasn\u2019t found.\u201d<\/p>\n
The problem is that it\u2019s not actually a font pack at all, but a Trojan, which can be used to install all manner of invasive software, including Spora ransomware.<\/p>\n
The main problem is that Chrome does not (yet) recognize the threat, and won\u2019t give you any warnings, but there are three tells to keep an eye out for:<\/p>\n
\u2022 First, the popup you get says you\u2019re running Chrome version 53, regardless of the version you\u2019re actually using.
\n\u2022 Second, the popup says it\u2019s going to install Chrome Font.exe, but when you hover over the download button, you\u2019ll see that the actual filename does not match, and is Chrome Font v7.5.1.exe
\n\u2022 Finally, and this is the biggest of the three tells, if you proceed to click the button, you\u2019ll get another popup informing you that this file isn\u2019t downloaded very often.
\nThe last one is significant because if this was a legitimate issue, the file would be downloaded on a regular basis.<\/p>\n
Undoubtedly, it won\u2019t take long for Google to catch up, and you\u2019ll get additional warnings when you encounter this file. But when the researchers found the Malware, they tested it against 59 different antivirus programs and found that only 9 of them were able to detect this threat.<\/p>\n
For the time being, the best defense is vigilance if and where you find webpages that aren\u2019t displaying text properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There\u2019s a nasty new form of Malware making the rounds that targets Chrome users, so if that\u2019s your browser of choice, be warned that if you\u2019re not careful, you could wind up with a lot more than you bargained for. Here\u2019s how the new attack works: If you go to a website that doesn\u2019t display […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[34,30],"yoast_head":"\n