Trojan Horse Attack on Google Chrome Extension
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Its been reported that a Trojan Horse attack has been mounted on Google’s Chrome browser.
The warning that the Trojan Horse attack is being perpetuated by cyber criminals intent on exploiting Google’s increasing popular Chrome browser was posted in a BitDefender blog.
The blog, called Malware City, regularly updates people on virus trends and BitDefender, like most of the computer security companies, see it as their role to alert computer users worldwide to threats and trends.
The Trojan Horse attack is based on the virus posing as a Google Chrome extension. It has been circulated by invidious hackers who now see Chrome as a very viable target. The method of the Trojan Horse attack is via an email which falsely claims that Google has launched a new Chrome extension which helps the user to better organise documents received in emails.
BitDefender discovered that the link that this spurious email contained was back to a fake page posing as a genuine Google Chrome extension page. And this page contained a download which contained an executable file contained the malware, the Trojan Horse attack.
Once downloaded, the Trojan Horse actually blocks attempts by the user to access Google and Yahoo websites, sending them instead to other websites which are loaded with other malicious files and content.
BitDefender has identified this Trojan Horse attack. It’s called Trojan.Agent.20577 and it’s one most definitely to be avoided at all costs.
How to Protect Against Trojan Horse Attacks
Don’t get careless; even if you have the best antivirus software that is always up to date Trojans can still attack. To prevent getting attacked by a Trojan horse before you download a file and open it. Ensure you are confident you know the source and the content of the file. You can protect yourself from Trojans by only downloading files from websites you are certain are 100% genuine.
Trojan attacks can also come from friends, via email or instant messenger, as many Trojan attacks are designed to spread automatically. If the email looks suspicious with spammy content then do not click on the attachment. If in doubt you can always ask the recipient if the attachment is genuine. You can also use antivirus software to scan the file.
Guest Article by Neil Camp


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