The Pale Moon browser application development team he said on July 10, 2019 that the archive server they are using was compromised by hackers and used to distribute malware.
The team detected the breach on July 9, 2019 and immediately shut down the archiving server to prevent further malware infections. An analysis of the issue revealed that the infection most likely occurred on December 27, 2017.
The archive server usesται για την εξυπηρέτηση παλαιότερων εκδόσεων του Pale Moon, και έτσι σύμφωνα με την ανακοίνωση τα κυριότερα κανάλια διανομής του προletterbrowsing were not affected by the breach, only the archived versions.
In addition, the hacker managed to infect only the executable files of the browser and not data that existed in other folders. For example, other programs hosted on the server within other dirs, such as the Basilisk browser, were not affected.
According to the publication, the issue affected all archived executables of Pale Moon before and until version 27.6.2.
Η research της ομάδας ξεκίνησε από ένα περιστατικό στις 26 Μαΐου 2019 που προκάλεσε "διαδεδομένη φθορά δεδομένων" στο διακομιστή αρχειοθέτησης σε σημείο που δεν ήταν πλέον δυνατή η εκκίνηση ή η μεταφορά δεδομένων.
The hacker or hackers managed to pass a malicious script on the server to distribute malware to the visitors of the browser page. The infection increased the size of executable files by about three Megabytes after Win32 / ClipBanker.DY was added into the exe.
If someone ran the exe installations, he also inadvertently added a trojan/backdoor to his system that could allow further infections.
Σύμφωνα με την ανακοίνωση όσοι δεν κατέβασαν ποτέ το Pale Moon από το archive (archive.palemoon.org) είναι "σχεδόν σίγουρα ασφαλείς."
However, if you are using the application, it would be good to remove it immediately and then scan your computer with a reliable antivirus.
Η υπογραφή της μόλυνσης είναι "γνωστή σε όλες τις μεγάλες εταιρείες antivirus" σύμφωνα με την ανακοίνωση, που αναφέρει. προγράμματα όπως το Avira Antivirus, το Avast Free Antivirus, το BitDefender Free ή το Kaspersky Free Antivirus.
Archived versions of Pale Moon are now accessible in its archive archive.palemoon.org, and the dates show that they were created on July 10, 2019.
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