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eFast Malware Hijacks Browser With Chrome Clone (malwarebytes.org)

An anonymous reader writes with a report at The Stack that: eFast Browser, a new malicious adware which disguises itself as Google Chrome, has hijacked internet users' systems in an apparent effort to serve its own ads and harvest user activity to sell to third-party advertisers. It is able to mirror the aesthetics of Chrome as it uses the same source code, available across the open-source project Chromium. Once installed, eFast places ads across existing web pages, linking to third-party e-commerce sites or other malicious platforms.

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  1. Yeah well.. by jafiwam · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If they fixed all the rampant memory leaks in Chrome in the process I wouldn't mind much.