According to investigators at Sophos the security company, a fresh online scam is presently attacking Firefox users with scareware.
Notably, Firefox utilizes the Safe Browsing Application Programming Interface of Google for blocking access to websites which Google labels as malevolent. Further, with Safe Browsing, data is gathered from the specialized crawlers of Google as well as from different intermediary entities.
Significantly, whenever an illegitimate website is viewed within Firefox, a security warning pops up in the browser telling the Web-surfer that his request has been blocked, while a list of alternatives gets displayed.
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