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Mozilla Disables Fake Firefox Add-on Used by Advanced Power Botnet

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Dec
2013

On Monday, Brian Krebs revealed the existence of a botnet called Advanced Power. The threat relies on a rogue version of the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant Firefox add-on to hijack computers and turn them into zombies that probe websites for SQL Injection vulnerabilities.

Shortly after, Mozilla announced …

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