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Brokewell = Not Well
One thing is insanely clear if you spend enough time on the internet. Hackers, threat actors, bad actors, whatever you want to call them. They want your money, there’s no better way we can address this. And the insane thing is, just as you work hard for your money, there’s someone, somewhere, working just as hard to take it.
Why? Well, at the heart of it all, we all have bills to pay. And bills never ask where’d the money came from. We’re heading back to Google because Google is turning out to be a “download and find out” mess. A new malware is making its rounds dressed as a brand we all know and might be losing trust.
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A malware by the name of Brokewell has been discovered, and unlike most malware on the market, you don’t have much thought into what it does. It leaves you “broke” and your bank saying “Oh, well.” Remember, in the IT world, the names are never clever, they’re straight to the point.
This little “leave you in debt” collector does several things when downloaded onto a machine. This is done by masking itself as an update for Google Chrome. When Brokewell infects a machine, it prompts the user to grant access to accessibility services.
Once permission is granted by the user, Brokewell then grants itself permissions on the user’s behalf, and from there can begin installing other malicious applications, steal user credentials, and whatever other task it has programmed. For the time being, Brokewell has been caught targeting applications like Google Chrome, ID Austria, and Klarna.
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Some tips to keep your money and identity safe are thoroughly checking what’s being downloaded onto your machine, combing through File Explorer to check for possibly unwanted programs (PUPs), and keeping anti-virus software up to date. This solution isn’t 100%, no security is, but keeping up with best practices won’t leave you broke.
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