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://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/millions-exposed-to-malvertising-that-hid-attack-code-in-banner-pixels/" rel="nofollow">https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/milli...</a>
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.