There is a new type of “electronic lace”, in the jargon “ransomware,” which is targeting the Italian internet pretending to be Chrome, the popular Google program for surfing the Internet. The malicious code that takes in “hostage” files on users’ computers, has been identified by the company Eset. According to researchers at Eset in the first week of January Italian Internet users were the most affected in the world by the various types of ransomware Filecoder, with 6.35% of infections.
The software, of course, pretends to be the file necessary to run the Google Chrome browser. Meanwhile, the real Google Chrome in the last hours in the middle of a problem due to a sort of “bug” (contained in the Nvidia graphics cards and OS X operating system from Apple) online browsing incognito does not work as it should and reopens the last page visited, a porn site in the case of Canadian student who has brought to the fore the issue.
That was dubbed “porno-bug”. Over the weekend Evan Andersen, University of Toronto student, visited a porn site with Chrome in private mode. Hours after he started playing with the game Diablo III, and when it reopened the browser we have seen before the last page you visited, the porn site, that it should have been canceled. The problem, as discovered by the student, but Chrome is not about video cards Nvidia: when you close Chrome these do not erase all the video memory. Nvidia, however, the site writes Motherboard, has laid the blame to Apple: the bug, says a spokesman, about the memory management in the OS X operating system, the Mac computers.
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