Ransomware Gang Targets Google Chrome Users In Surprise New Threat Twist

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Ransomware Gang Targets Google Chrome Users In Surprise New Threat Twist
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Davey Winder is a technology journalist who covers cybersecurity news and research. He’s covered everything from the true story behind the hacking of Donald Trump’s nude photos to a record-breaking ransomware payment of $75 million.

, has now been caught stealing credentials stored within Google Chrome browsers in a surprise new twist to the ransomware attack threat.in the nasty cybercrime game. Running a Ransomware-as-a-Service criminal operation, Qilin is known to date back only as far as October 2022.

After the extended dwell period, however, the attackers were seen to mover laterally in order to compromise a domain controller and edit the domain policy to include a script that would attempt to harvest credentials stored within a Chrome browser, alongside another that contained the commands to execute it.

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