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Hello. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's research Saturday.

I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts

tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities,

solving some of the hard problems and protecting ourselves

in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

Thanks for joining us. I'm keeping my eye on in particular what's trending through Google searches and I noticed I actually had not heard of the

art browser before although I know it's been available for the Mac for most a year, I think.

So this is kind of how I came across it and I thought it was interesting to see that threat actors were you

know hijacking that brand pretty quickly. That's Jerome Segura, senior

director of threat intelligence at Malware Bites.

The research we're discussing today is titled Threat Act Act

Ride the Hype for Newly

Arck browser. Well, I mean, let's walk through it here together. I mean, let's walk through it here together.

I mean, suppose I'm a Windows user and I decide that the Arc browser is something that I want to check out and I go online to search for it.

What might happen?

So yeah, most people are going to look do a search probably in Google being the most popular search engine.

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