A long-running Chrome extension malware campaign has silently hijacked more than 500,000 VKontakte (VK) accounts, forcing users into attacker-controlled groups, resetting their settings every 30 days, and abusing VK’s own infrastructure as command-and-control. What appeared to be harmless VK customization tools were in reality a tightly maintained malware project operated by a single threat actor […]

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