Backdoored Firefox extension checks Instagram for C&C info

Turla, an APT cyberespionage group that has been targeting corporations, intelligence and other government agencies for years, is using a malicious Firefox extension to backdoor targets’ systems. The extension Named “HTML5 Encoding 0.3.7”, the extension has a backdoor component that can gather information about the targeted system, send it encrypted to the C&C, upload and download files from the C&C, execute files, and read directory content.

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