Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chrome extension

Re:Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chr... by ungzd on Monday July 18, 2016 @11:25AM (#12115604)

Extensions like this are just the same as .exe adware downloaded and installed by user (not automatically).

More serious problem is legitimate extensions that are trusted by lots of users then being sold to some rogue company, then lots of users receive malware with update.

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Re:Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chr... by angry-hacker on Monday July 18, 2016 @11:55AM (#12115811)

The same goes for wordpress plug-ins. Once you're approved, you can push make are to hundreds of thousands machines. Or whatever you need to do - back links, redirects and other crap.

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Re:Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chr... by wnevets on Monday July 18, 2016 @12:52PM (#12116285)

or the author is simply paid to add it to their extension. With the auto updating its basically impossible to stop.

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Re:Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chr... by emodendroket on Monday July 18, 2016 @11:41AM (#12115722)

Yeah, I've definitely at least experienced ad injection from extensions that went rogue.

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