{"id":44,"date":"2008-12-08T11:07:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T18:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/?p=44"},"modified":"2008-12-08T11:07:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T18:07:38","slug":"malicious-firefox-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2008\/12\/08\/malicious-firefox-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious Firefox Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A malicious piece of software masquerading as a legitimate and popular Firefox plugin is spreading.\u00a0 Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A collects a user&#8217;s passwords from banking and other sites and forwards them to a remote server.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If a user has been tricked into installing this plug-in, or had it installed through a separate vulnerability it may compromise passwords and the user&#8217;s accounts.\u00a0 This trojan is not Greasemonkey, even though it uses some of Greasemonkey&#8217;s internal IDs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Status<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To check whether your computer is infected, look for &#8220;Basic Example Plugin for Mozilla\u201d in the Plugin list by choosing Add-ons from the Tools menu in Firefox.\u00a0 Then choose Plugins. If you see this plugin, disable it.<\/p>\n<p>Johnathan Nightingale blogged about it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.johnath.com\/2008\/12\/08\/firefox-malware\/\">http:\/\/blog.johnath.com\/2008\/12\/08\/firefox-malware\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This issue was identified in the wild by BitDefender.\u00a0 Their analysis is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/VIRUS-1000451-en--Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.B.html\">http:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/VIRUS-1000451-en&#8211;Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.B.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue A malicious piece of software masquerading as a legitimate and popular Firefox plugin is spreading.\u00a0 Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A collects a user&#8217;s passwords from banking and other sites and forwards them to &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2008\/12\/08\/malicious-firefox-plugin\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,69],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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