Attack details confirmed, as 2 billion Chrome users given stark decision to make.
Chrome is under attack, with Google warning that two-separate vulnerabilities are being actively exploited and the U.S. government ordering all federal employees to update their browsers within 21-days. Microsoft—which discovered and disclosed the first of these vulnerabilities—has just gone even further, recommending that users should be “encouraged” to quit Chrome and use a different browser instead.—had also come under attack post the initial warning notice.
According to Microsoft, the threat actor behind the CVE-2024-7971 attacks is Citrine Sleet, which “primarily targets financial institutions… and individuals managing cryptocurrency, for financial gain.” Microsoft warns that Citrine Sleet “creates fake websites masquerading as legitimate cryptocurrency trading platforms and uses them to distribute fake job applications or lure targets into downloading a weaponized cryptocurrency wallet or trading application based on legitimate applications.
While Microsoft clearly recommends keeping Chrome, Edge and other Chromium browsers updated, it also says that protecting against such exploits “necessitates not only keeping systems up to date, but also security solutions that provide unified visibility across the cyberattack chain.
As for Citrine Sleet and the specifics here. The threat actor has likely links to North Korea’s nation-state cyber capabilities, which is unsurprising given the country’s. This should be viewed as a serious threat, and in a world where exploits are multi-purposed and swap hands, that threat can quickly expand beyond theft into ransomware or purer espionage.
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