By Ionut Arghire on August 16, 2017
More than 4.7 million users were apparently exposed to potentially malicious ads and credential theft after cybercriminals managed to hijack the developer accounts of several popular Chrome extensions.
The actors used phishing emails to gain access to the developers’ Google accounts and submit to the Chrome Web Store malicious versions of legitimate extensions. The malicious code injected in these tools was meant to modify the advertisements displayed to users and to grab specific credentials from the victims’ machines.
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Hijacked Extensions Put 4.7 Million Chrome Users at Risk
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Tut tut, Google...that will never do! Oh, sorry...you don't really care, do you! :@
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