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Malicious Browser Extensions Identified in Google Chrome Web Store

Aug

2014

Extensions with suspicious activity as well as downright malicious ones have been discovered in Google Chromes Web Store, posing risks such as code injection in web pages, browsing monitoring or information stealing. Studying a number of 48,332 Chrome extensions using a specially designed tool called Hulk, security researchers discovered 130 of them to sport malicious […]

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Experts Identify 12 Rogue Chrome Extensions Installed by 180,000 Users

Feb

2014

Google has recently removed two ad-injecting Chrome extensions from the Chrome Web Store, but experts warn that there were at least 12 others that should have been taken down. Security researchers from Barracuda Labs have been monitoring rogue Chrome extensions since October 2012. A new spam campaign they…

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Developers can now port their Chrome Apps to iOS and Android

Jan

2014

A few months ago, Google introduced a new subset of apps on the Chrome Web Store that are able function on the desktop without an internet connection, outside of the Chrome browser. Google announced on Tuesday that developers now have the capability to port those apps to iOS and Android with a new toolchain that […]

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