Thursday, December 17, 2020

Almost 3M users with infected devices with Chrome and Edge extensions

Up to 3 million devices infected by malware-laced Chrome and Edge add-ons.

Many of the "smart" and "advanced" users who use browser extensions (browser extensions) to download photos, videos, and other content from sites like Facebook, Instagram, Vimeo, and Spotify, have just "achieved" the results that security professionals have always warned about: they managed to contaminate their equipment with silent password stealers, who work without drawing almost any attention, even making the user think "he is safe and that he never had any problem with viruses and malware".

In reality, end users usually don't even know what malware is ...

Read more on this subject at ArsTechnica.

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