Hackers exploit Mozilla Firefox bug reportedly affecting Coinbase users

Jun19

by Sindy Cator on June 19, 2019 at 2:20 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork

Mozilla has warned hackers are exploiting a critical “zero-day” exploit in its Firefox browser — and cryptocurrency owners are most at-risk, ZDNet reports. Details of the bug are scarce, but Mozilla has described it as a “type confusion vulnerability” that could occur when interacting with JavaScript objects. “This can allow for an exploitable crash,” reads Mozilla’s latest patch note. “We are aware of targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw.” Samuel Groß, one of the security researchers who found and reported the bug, confirmed he did so way back on April 15 — over two months ago. “The first public fix then landed about…