Firefox Vietnamese Language Pack Infected With Trojan

Original post provide by Slashdot: IT

An anonymous reader writes “Wired.com is reporting that the Firefox browser has been unknowingly distributing a trojan with the Firefox Vietnamese language pack. Over 16,000 downloads of the pack occurred since being infected. This highlights a risk on relying on user-submitted Firefox extensions, or a lack of peer-review of the extensions, many of which receive frequent upgrades.”

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