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Popular Chrome extensions hijacked by hackers in widespread cyberattack (www.tomsguide.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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a number of popular extensions that enable things like dark mode and adblocking in Google’s browser have been hijacked by hackers, putting 3.2 million Chrome users at risk.

While all of the extensions listed below have since been removed from the Chrome Web Store, you will still need to manually delete them if they’re currently installed in your browser

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had the "Page Refresh" one... disabled, but still installed. There are multiple "[Auto] [Easy] Page/Tab Refresh/Reload" extensions in the store, hard to pick one that won't go rogue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Page refresh". You mean F5 (or ctrl + r) right?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Yes, every 30 seconds, for hours on end.

Useful for many things, starting with CI/CD status panels.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A lot harder to do when it’s not on your computer. At work we have some TVs displaying a web oage full screen. I’m not gonna vnc in just to hit F5 every 30 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You can set the webpage to self refresh on interval by itself no extensions needed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

We already have it for every 20 minutes but sometimes it fails for various reasons. 30 minutes is the backup before I just reboot it.