Chrome extensions with 33 million downloads slurped sensitive user data https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/06/chrome-extensions-with-33-million-downloads-slurped-sensitive-user-data/
The extensions, which Google removed only after being privately notified of them, actively siphoned data such as screenshots, contents in device clipboards, browser cookies used to log in to websites, and keystrokes such as passwords, researchers from security firm Awake told me. Many of the extensions were modular, meaning once installed, they updated themselves with executable files, which in many cases were specific to the operating system they ran on. Awake provided additional details in this report. https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3455675/wp-the-internets-new-arms-dealers-malicious-domain-registrars.pdf
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