New Google Chrome Hack Will Display 'Missing Font' And Prompt User To Download Malware!

Google Chrome, one of the best browsers today has been infiltrated. A "missing font" will allegedly pop up and prompt users to download and install malware on their system.

The hackers allegedly use a JavaScript to tamper the text so it resembles a misencoded text, making the Google Chrome users think that something is indeed wrong. It will then prompt a pop-up window suggesting that the user updates the "Chrome front pack."

The New Web reported that one researcher discovers this while browsing an unnamed WordPress site that is allegedly compromised. The new Chrome hack is very well-disguised that user won't even be suspicious about it.

The hack will display a dialog window that resembles an actual Chrome pop-up. It includes the logo of the popular browser with the correct shade of blue for its "update" button.

However, aside from displaying this pop-up window, it will lure Google Chrome users to download a file titled "Chrome Font v7.5.1.exe." This file doesn't match the file name "Chrome_Front.exe" in the malicious instruction.

Unfortunately, Chrome and Windows Defender fail to filter this malware file. However, this is blocked by the standard "this file isn't downloaded often." Most of the anti-virus scanners also missed to detect the malicious file. In fact, out of the 59 anti-virus scanners, only 9 are able to detect it as a threat, per Virus Total.

Among the antivirus that flagged this Chrome malware as a threat are Baidu, Endgame, Fortinet, Malwarebytes and Symantec to name a few. Meanwhile, AVG, Avira, Avast, Kaspersky, BitDefender and more anti-virus scanners missed it.

Chrome users should be careful with this new hack. NeoSmart Technologies advise that one hint that should alert users is the dialog window that has been hard-coded to display that the user is running Chrome v53 when you could be running other iterations of the browser.

Google is planning to release Chrome v56 soon, which is deemed faster and safer. Hopefully, this will also resolve this issue.

What do you think of the new Google Chrome hack? Have you encountered it already? Drop a comment below.