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Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware
A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people's data to servers in China.
Remember browser bars of the '00's... Going over to grandma's and launching IE only to be met with half a screen of browser bars. Spending a good hour uninstalling them, cleaning up the debris left ...
A long-running malware campaign quietly evolved over several years and turned trusted Chrome and Edge extensions into spyware. A detailed report from Koi Security reveals that the ShadyPanda operation ...
Browser extensions turned malicious after years of legitimate operation in DarkSpectre campaign affecting millions. The ...
A set of 18 malicious browser extensions that are still available to download on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have been identified by a team of security researchers at Koi Security. These ...
TL;DR: A sophisticated malware campaign infected 2.3 million Chrome and Edge users. It worked because a bunch of browser extensions were on the market for a long time, gaining a trusted reputation, ...
This is a cautionary tale for all of you who install extensions to Chrome or add-ons to Edge browsers willy-nilly. Security firm Koi has revealed that browser extensions with more than 8 million ...
Microsoft is planning to introduce a new Edge security feature that will protect users against malicious extensions sideloaded into the web browser. Edge enables developers to install extensions ...
I'm the author of 2 extensions on the list, both are open sourced on Github, one of them does not have Mellowtel in Chrome. It was flagged for the "single purpose policy", and that's the reason Google ...
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