Firefox Flaw Facilitates Deception

Firefox engineers are busy trying to fix a bug that prevents the browser from flagging Web addresses that have been disguised.

Disguising or obfuscating a Web address (URL) is a tactic employed by malware distributors to increase the likelihood of enticing potential victims to malicious Web sites.

Modern browsers commonly attempt to see through obfuscation techniques to identify unsafe Web addresses. But Firefox misses obfuscated URLs inside of iFrames, blocks of HTML code that add content to a Web page from a third party's server.

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