Microsoft warned about the malware campaign infecting chrome, edge, Firefox :Microsoft


As you know Cyberattack has become unstoppable Nowdays. In then various aspects we all have seen this many people have become the victim of this .

The Cyberattack has been growing since last few years. And it is growing in the numbers because we can see most of the people do their work on the digital platform and some are completely relying on this.



A few time ago Microsoft has reveled its data about this malware campaign which is targeting the browsers like Chrome, edge , Firefox . And the cases of the attacking linked to this Malware campaign are rapidly increasing because most of the people are using the browsers that are being attacked by this campaign.

Microsoft has shared its details about this malware campaign  the "Adrozek" family of browser has been injecting malware in the advertisements in the search results .


By the help of Advertisements ,this method lead attacker to get more traffic on the other webpages and Microsoft has noticed this in 2020 and Microsoft has also shared its detail that approximately 30,000 devices has infected by this Malware.

The areas which have been effected by this Malware in the Globe:-

According to Data that Microsoft has seen after tracking to this Malware campaign very preciously that 
The areas which have been affected by the Malware are:-

1. The Malware campaign was  heavily focused in the area of Europe.

2. And the attacks of this can be seen southeast Asia so far.

That's why many people don't know about this attack.

After detecting this so far Microsoft has shared a data that  family of Adrozek distributed by the 159 hosting domains and thousands of Urls.

They also said that it is difficult to detect them because they has played very dynamically.
Some of the websites has shut down and some are in working condition .


How they are doing this?:-


1. They are doing this by changing the extension of the browsers and changed it to the default so that it will look like  familiar.

2. Normally it is observed that the pattern to do is different for the different browsers . so it is not possible to predict the strategy.

Another pattern that is detected by modifying browser DLLs  across all browsers , basically they are decimating the security controls .

3. In the Firefox it is noted that the pattern of this is to create a login.json file in Fierfox directory.
They are looking to steal the credentials.
The file is encrypted password , usernames, browser history.


But the main point is that Microsoft now has detected it and block Adrozek by the machine learning capabilities.
Microsoft encourage users to smart solutions such Urls filtering and victim should reinstall the browser  and be aware of this.