Scammers Are Actively Exploiting A Firefox Bug

'Scammers are actively exploiting a bug in Firefox that causes the
browser to lock up after displaying a message warning the computer is
running a pirated version of Windows that has been hacked... The
message then advises the person to call a toll-free number in the next
five minutes or face having the computer disabled...

Jérôme Segura, head of threat intelligence at security provider
Malwarebytes, said the Firefox bug is being exploited by several
sites... On Monday, Segura reported the bug to the Bugzilla forum. He
said he has since received word Mozilla is actively working on a fix.
In a statement sent seven hours after this post went live, a Mozilla
representative wrote: "We are working on a fix to the authentication
prompt bug that we expect to land in the next couple of releases
(either in Firefox 71 or 72).'

-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/11/09/0358237

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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