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After phishing attacks, Chrome extensions push adware to millions (arstechnica.com)
4 points by gschrader on Aug 3, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Does anybody remember this? Why do we assume the adware was the end result and not just a vector for something worse?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/milli...


After getting hit by this yesterday and finding it not very easy to find which extension was affected I went through a big extension purge. Most of the extensions I had installed I never really ever used.




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