Google Chrome extensions with 500,000 downloads found to be malicious

Ars Technica
By Dan GoodinJan 16, 2018, 8:12 pm135 pts
Enlarge (credit: ICEBRG) Researchers have uncovered four malicious extensions with more than 500,000 combined downloads from the Google Chrome Web Store, a finding that highlights a key weakness in what's widely considered to be the Internet's most secure browser. Google has since removed the extensions.…

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