Recent Firefox Zero-Day Flaw Was Used in Attacks Against Coinbase’s Employees

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The recent Firefox’s zero-day security flaw was used in attacks against major crypto exchange and wallet service Coinbase, according to a tweet from Coinbase security researcher Philip Martin posted on June 20.

As Martin found, the reported critical zero-day vulnerability in Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, which was announced on June 18, has actually emerged along with another zero-day flaw that targeted Coinbase employees, meaning that there were two separate Firefox zero-day attacks.


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Indeed, which is why Mozilla issued 2 updates w/fixes almost back to back. I don't think the details surrounding 0day attack targeting Coinbase employees are disclosed as of yet, we'll see what's that all about once it comes out...