Browsers. You can’t use the Internet without them, but they introduce insecurity and instability to the computing environment. Browsers are the operating system of cloud computing and protecting them will become more and more important.
Just last week, Google came out with patches to fix zero-day vulnerabilities with Chrome. As Kaspersky noted in its blog, “The attack leverages a waterhole-style injection on a Korean-language news portal. A malicious JavaScript code was inserted in the main page, which in turn loads a profiling script from a remote site.” The attack determined what browser version and operating system the victim is running. Like many attacks, the goal was to gain persistence on the computer. In this case the malware installs tasks in Windows Task Scheduler.
