24th September, 2018 By Lawrence Abrams
A new attack has been created that can crash or freeze the Mozilla Firefox desktop browser simply by visiting a web page that contains an embedded JavaScript script.
This attack was created by Sabri Haddouche, a security researcher at Wire, who has been releasing denial-of-service attacks that cause cause popular web browsers to crash or freeze. Some of the attacks created by Haddouche could even be used to crash an iPhone using CSS and HTML.
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New Mozilla Firefox Attack Causes Desktop Client to Crash
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