Articles tagged "social-engineering"

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A hairline square with a gap in one edge and a single thin line passing through it into a soft orange watercolour bloom outside — a sandbox with a door that was always there.

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Edgecution: an extension escaped the browser sandbox — how to check what yours can reach

Edgecution abused native messaging to run a Python backdoor outside Edge's sandbox — from a headless browser you'd never see. How to check your own machine.

Maxim Kosterin

August 10, 2026

11 min read

A thin-line shield split by a single jagged crack bleeding a soft orange watercolor wash — protection that breaks on purpose.

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Fake ad blocker crashes your browser on purpose: how to spot the CrashFix trap

A fake uBlock Origin clone crashed Chrome on purpose, then tricked users into running malware. Here's how to spot the CrashFix trap and check your extensions.

Maxim Kosterin

June 15, 2026

8 min read