This password-stealing malware just added a new way to infect your PC
One of the new tactics by the malware involves an injection technique not seen in the wild until just days ago.
By Danny Palmer | July 4, 2018 -
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-password-stealing-malware-just-added-a-new-way-to-infect-your-pc/
Here is the part which motivated me to post this thread:
I am wondering if P M users are at risk. Apparently, the new threat from this attack, which has been around and being modified for some time, normally gets delivered by email, However, it seems it can also get in through a browser.While there's still plenty of Smoke Loader attacks which look to deliver additional malware to compromised systems, in some cases the malware is being equipped with its own plug-ins to go straight onto performing its own malicious tasks.
Each of these plugins are designed to steal sensitive information, specifically stored credentials or sensitive information transferred over a browser - the likes of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, QQ Browser, Outlook, and Thunderbird can all be used to steal data.