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After phishing attacks, Chrome extensions push adware to millions

4 pointsby gschraderalmost 8 years ago

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nobodyorotheralmost 8 years ago
Does anybody remember this? Why do we assume the adware was the end result and not just a vector for something worse?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;millions-exposed-to-malvertising-that-hid-attack-code-in-banner-pixels&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;milli...</a>
gschraderalmost 8 years ago
After getting hit by this yesterday and finding it not very easy to find which extension was affected I went through a big extension purge. Most of the extensions I had installed I never really ever used.