Brave attempting to reach malware site; blocked by Bitdefender

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Bitdefender reports repeated attempts by Brave to reach malware site: https://tacscc.com, which it blocks. Not sure why this is happening; Windows 11. Proton VPN

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@Agedgolfbiker,
Thank you for reaching out to us. Can you please share an exact screenshot of the warning BitDefender is showing you?

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Here is the information from the Bitdefender Notification section. From what I could find out from Chat, this is a malware site.

Thx

S

Infected web resource detected

February 6 at 6:52 PM

Feature:

Online Threat Prevention

We blocked this dangerous page for your protection: https://tacscc.com/ Accessed by: brave.exe Dangerous pages attempt to install software that can harm the device, gather personal information or operate without your consent.

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I should have mentioned that I have multiple notifications dating back to end of January from BD.

Thx

S

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Thank you for the information.
While this site does appear to be a domain used to host malware, we do not have any code built-into the browser that would attempt to reach this site. This likely means that you either are trying to visit a site that is trying to redirect you there, or you may have a malicious extension installed attempting to make the connection.

Can you please try uninstalling any extensions have you have at this time and test to see if the warning persists?

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My hunch is that it may have been the extension FlowCrypt that caused the problem. That is the only extension I have recently added and have now removed. Warnings have stopped.

Thank you

Steven

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You’re very welcome — thanks for confirming. Will let our security team know about this extension as well.

Have a great day!