On in late September, Martin Brinkmann was more blunt as he wrote about a Chrome extension that supposedly made your browsing safer from malware, but in fact secretly ran a cryptocurrency miner. "It is starting to become more and more common for unwanted and malicious extensions to be uploaded to the store and not be removed for quite a while," Abrams noted. 3, two days after Abrams published his piece, the extension was still in the Chrome Webstore. This past week, Lawrence Abrams at Bleeping Computer wrote about an image-downloading Chrome extension that loaded adware into the browser and took users to various sleazy websites.Ībrams reported the extension to the Chrome developers, but on Friday afternoon, Nov. If you log into Facebook with that malicious extension loaded, it can steal your Facebook token and take over your Facebook page. Kjaer was writing about a Chrome extension that pretended to verify the user's age so he or she could view porn, but actually stole authentication tokens for social-media sites.
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