Security Firm Warns Toolbar Is a Malware Conduit
The toolbar distributed by Chinese-language search engine Baidu is being targeted by opportunistic attackers and used to exfiltrate corporate secrets, says Rob Eggebrecht, president and CEO of security firm InteliSecure.
Baidu, like all major search engines, including Bing, Google and Yahoo, distributes a toolbar that can be used to speed up searches. But Eggebrecht says that multiple organizations have traced data breaches to an intrusion that began when outside attackers used the Baidu toolbar to sneak data-stealing malware into their enterprise. Without naming names, he says that one recent victim was a U.S. pharmaceutical firm, from which attackers compromised research and development work worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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The toolbar distributed by Chinese-language search engine Baidu is being targeted by opportunistic attackers and used to exfiltrate corporate secrets, says Rob Eggebrecht, president and CEO of security firm InteliSecure.
Baidu, like all major search engines, including Bing, Google and Yahoo, distributes a toolbar that can be used to speed up searches. But Eggebrecht says that multiple organizations have traced data breaches to an intrusion that began when outside attackers used the Baidu toolbar to sneak data-stealing malware into their enterprise. Without naming names, he says that one recent victim was a U.S. pharmaceutical firm, from which attackers compromised research and development work worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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