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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] 1 points 1 month ago

We put so much important information/data through browsers (and smart phones for that matter), and it is becoming hard to trust third party code running on either. Trust in the publisher has become mandatory for me and the only browser plugin I run now is Bitwarden. Neither the app store operators nor the browser publishers seem to have an answer for reliably thwarting malicious actors. I don't know what the answer is, other than developing literacy in writing browser plugins and adding functionality through my own code.