Posted on 02/25/2019 1:35:50 PM PST by Swordmaker
Academics from Greece have devised a new browser-based attack that can allow hackers to run malicious code inside users' browsers even after users have closed or navigated away from the web page on which they got infected
This new attack, called MarioNet, opens the door for assembling giant botnets from users' browsers. These botnets can be used for in-browser crypto-mining (cryptojacking), DDoS attacks, malicious files hosting/sharing, distributed password cracking, creating proxy networks, advertising click-fraud, and traffic stats boosting, researchers said. . .
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And clear your cookies/cache.
Looks like you are still curious. Let me PM you with more my friend. You can always just download it to make a stick then run it from the stick and try it out. :)
Thanks, but don’t bother. Right now I don’t have time to play with the knobs.
I know about Cinnamon. And Mint.
Lol... Sorry about that... I was off doing that already when you posted this. Disregard it then...
No problem. Thanks.
“Once AGAIN you post about a FIVE YEAR OLD, long-solved issue from an older model MacBook Pro. Why? As you’ve been told before this issue was from 2014!”
Except it’s NOT SOLVED unless the user resets settings on their computer, and then down the road, it happens again.
And I just had a client have the same thing happen on a ONE YEAR OLD MB Pro.
Check your tone, dude, no wonder you get into cheese battles with Windoze lusers (sic).
Where’s the link to download the Mac version on that page (or any version?).
TIA.
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