November 17, 2020 By Pieter Arntz
A mystery Chromium browser recently made a sudden appearance, and is certainly proving popular. But what is it, and where did it come from?
Malwarebytes detects the browser as PUP.Optional.WebNavigator, and we found several clues that this browser was brought to you by a notorious family of search hijackers.
That family isn’t new to us—we reported about them before when they changed a Chrome policy to remote administration, and lied about the permissions they asked of their users.