We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data

Re:We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to stea... by ocdtrekkie on Thursday December 06, 2018 @11:25PM (#18625138)

As of this writing, the malicious "Postman" extension is still available in the Google Chrome extension store and has been downloaded over 27,000 times.

This is pretty much par for the course, unfortunately.

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Re:We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to stea... by cws on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:31AM (#18625381)

Yep. Pretty hard to police. Unlikely to be removed until it gets quite a lot of attention.

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Re:We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to stea... by audessuscest on Friday December 07, 2018 @05:01AM (#18626363)

Firefox does it really well though, before.

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Re:We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to stea... by cws on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:24PM (#18629509)

I just searched for the fake Postman extension again and it appears to have been removed. Hurray!

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Re:We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to stea... by ocdtrekkie on Saturday December 08, 2018 @03:47PM (#18637427)

It seems like trending a story on HN is the only way to get Google to remove malware, unfortunately.

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