Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs

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Researcher uncovers network of risky Chrome extensions with over 4 million installs

John Tucker, founder of browser security firm Secure Annex, discovered the suspicious extensions while assisting a client who had installed one or more for security monitoring. The first red flag: two of the 132 extensions he analyzed were unlisted, meaning they don't appear in web searches or the Chrome Web...Read Entire Article

Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs

Google is hosting dozens of extensions in its Chrome Web Store that perform suspicious actions on the more than 4 million devices that have installed it and that the developer has taken pains to carefully conceal. The extensions, which so far number at least 35, use the same code patterns, connect to some of the same servers, and require the same list of sensitive systems permissions, including the ability to interact with web traffic on all URL…

A security expert recently identified dozens of suspicious extensions in the Chrome Web Store that collectively have over four million installs.