49 New Google Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking Cryptocurrency Wallets
submitted 4 years ago by magnora7 from (thehackernews.com)
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This is CRITICAL! Why have a the Chrome Store for quality control when there is none?
The OP article links to:
"The 49 browser add-ons, potentially the work of Russian threat actors, were identified (find the list here) by researchers from MyCrypto and PhishFort." https://medium.com/mycrypto/discovering-fake-browser-extensions-that-target-users-of-ledger-trezor-mew-metamask-and-more-e281a2b80ff9
and:
"Back in February, the company removed 500 malicious extensions after they were caught serving adware and sending users' browsing activity to C2 servers under the control of attackers." https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/chrome-extension-malware.html
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