Russian hackers are capitalizing on a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting Firefox, Thunderbird, and the Tor Browser.
#Firefox #Russia #hackers #cybercrime #CyberSecurity #infosec
https://cnews.link/russian-hackers-exploit-critical-firefox-and-windows-zero-days-1/
Mozilla patched the vulnerable products on October 9th.
does it make it a -18-day?
-48 day
Where are you getting 18 from? O.o It's November.
not if I have anything to say about it
Clickky click clickk baiitttt
Note to self : best way to disseminate malicious links would be through an article about 0day.
@cybernews@infosec.exchange I assume that Betterbird (fork of Thunderbird) and LibreWolf (fork of Firefox) are also affected unless running the latest versions?
@meatlotion@mas.erb.pw They weren't mentioned in the ESET research, but are most likely affected
@cybernews@infosec.exchange @meatlotion@mas.erb.pw I'm sad to say I'm happy to have left Firefox and NOT tried any fork of it.. I'll stay on Vivaldi for a log time, it seems...
Weird flex, but okay.
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