The cost of zero-day exploits has always been high, especially if they allow an attacker to remotely execute code on a host machine.
But why pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for an 0-day when a relatively simple drive-by attack doesn’t need one and can achieve much the same result? That’s what interested an Imperva security researcher who has published a report on new Google Chrome, and other Chromium browsers, drive-by attack using something called the Evil Code Editor. Here’s what you need to know.
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Source: Forbes News
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