Beware! Don’t fall for Firefox “Hoefler Text Font Wasn’t There” Banking Malware Scam
By Wang Wei | May 05, 2017
Next time when you accidentally land up on a suspicious website with jumbled content prompting to update the Firefox or Chrome font pack by downloading a missing text font to read the article… Just don’t download it. It’s obviously a trap.
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The attack initiates with an alert message, which states that “The ‘HoeflerText’ font was not found,” asking Firefox users to update their “Mozilla Font Pack.”
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To protect yourself from such scams, always exercise caution when downloading anything from the Internet onto your computers. Moreover, keep your antivirus up-to-date and do not ever fall for scam asking you to update your Mozilla or Chrome font pack, as it already comes with everything you need.
Panda focuses on stealing banking credentials from users, as well as those of bitcoin exchanges, payment card services and online payments providers, prepaid cards, airline loyalty programs and online betting accounts, to name a few.
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