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I've gotten this message from Malwarebytes quite a lot these few days. Is this just a false positive?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually drive by JS attacks and JavaScript engine exploits happen occasionally and have known to bypass browser sandboxes. In these cases the infection is completely invisible to the user and requires no downloads or execution of files.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah you're right. But browser zero days are usually targeted attacks not casting a large net like the usual web threat. Thanks for the link, it was interesting to learn some more techniques that are used in developing those. In this case the threat detected was Go based ransomware.