Chrome and Firefox Phishing Attack Uses Domains Identical to Known Safe Sites

Wordfence ^ | April 14, 2017 | Mark Maunder

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

No, it’s not my blog.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

You can implement the Firefox fix on the Pale Moon browser also. I’ve already done it on both Firefox and Pale Moon.

Combined General and Maryland “Freak State” PING! with a DANG! thrown in as well.

[21twelve]

So how does one go about doing the Firefox fix?

[Bigg Red]

I use Firefox. Please tell a techno-clueless old lady how to fix Firefox for this issue. Thanks.

[humblegunner]

No, it’s not my blog.

Good. I hate to see folks descend into that blog depravity.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

the instructions are laid out in the original article.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

See the original article. The instructions are there, and they are fairly easy to follow.

[Oldhunk]

Often, when I go to Lucienne Goldberg’s website, a new window pops up saying critical Chrome update needed. Obviously a scam, but I haven’t figured out how to stop it.

[JayGalt]

Its really easy. The linked Wordpress article tells you in detail what the problem is & the steps to fix it, 60 second fix.

[newfreep]

I have an Samsung “S7 Edge” running Android v7 (Nutmeg).

When I go to “Gateway Pundit”, there are multiple pop up tabs warning of malware and all kinds of crap. It takes forever for the site to load...if it ever does.

No problem on my laptop running Chrome/Win10

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

You could always try an Adblock add-on.

[kingu]

I would hope that the only people who are foolish enough to click a link work for the DNC, but that said, this is something that needs to be addressed immediately.

[Slings and Arrows]

Thanks for posting. Useful tip!

[hsmomx3]

Thanks. FF just issued an update which I downloaded right away.

[Bigg Red]

Thank you. I admit that I was afraid to click on the link.

[Bigg Red]

OK. Thanks, FRiend.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Make sure that update actually fixed the problem.

[bicyclerepair]

Tried it on my Linux computer, doesn’t apply. no network.idn Preference Name.

[rightazrain]

I know I sound really dumb when I ask this:

When I go to the Firefox location bar I get FR (my home page). Is this the Firefox location bar? If not, where is it? I don’t know where to type about:config, etc.