While she was performing some routine tasks one day that relate to her job of constantly hunting for digital threats online, security researcher Jamila Kaya stumbled across the first in a series of malicious Google Chrome extensions that would spark a two-month investigation and lead to the removal of more than 500 extensions by Google from its web store. Unfortunately, more than 1.7 million Chrome users had already installed that first batch of extensions she found, which gave some urgency to this investigation — the results of which have been unveiled in a newly published report into what turned out to be a huge malware operation active for at least two years.
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Busted: Huge malware operation targeted Google Chrome extensions originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 19:04:53 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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