Russian Hackers Can Track Anyone Who Uses Chrome & Firefox
Most of the hackers won’t look beyond exploiting the weakness in web browsers, but one hacker collective has gone a step further.
Russian Hackers Can Track Anyone Who Uses Chrome & Firefox
By
Muhammad Mubeen Javed
Most of the hackers won’t look beyond exploiting the weakness in web browsers, but one hacker collective has gone a step further.
A Russian group, Kaspersky Turla has attempted to fingerprint TLS-encrypted web traffic by modifying Firefox and Chrome.
The group contaminates systems through a remote access Trojan, modifying the browsers. First by installing their certificates and afterward connecting the pseudo-random number generation that conveys TLS connections. It allows them to add a fingerprint to every TLS action and inertly track secure traffic.
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The motives of these hackers are unclear. If it infected the system, you don’t need to patch the browser to spy on traffic. It might be a foolproof method to let them spy on traffic on users who remove the virus but don’t reinstall their browses.
The hacker collective is easier to identify with Trula through to be protected by the Russian government. The targets in the start are based in Belarus and Russia.