Jan 14, 2023
This flaw in Google Chrome & Chromium-based browsers enabled data theft of information such as cryptocurrency wallets and credentials from over 2.5 billion users
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: cryptocurrencies, cybercrime/malcode
Researchers from the cyber security firm Imperva Red Team have disclosed information on a newly found and fixed vulnerability that affected over 2.5 billion Google Chrome users as well as all Chromium-based browsers such as Edge and Opera.
The vulnerability, which is identified as CVE-2022–3656, makes it possible for remote attackers to acquire sensitive user data such as passwords for cloud service providers and knowledge about cryptocurrency wallets. After further investigation, it was determined that the problem was caused by the manner in which the Chrome browser dealt with symlinks when processing directories and files.