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Gamers ticked as flight simulator had malware to steal pirates’ passwords

21

Feb

2018

Imagine paying $100 for a flight simulator addon which included malware to harvest passwords from the Google Chrome browser.

Category Malware Written by Csoonline 0 Comments

Flaw in Grammarly’s extensions opened user accounts to compromise

06

Feb

2018

A vulnerability in the Grammarly Chrome and Firefox extensions allowed websites to read users’ authentication tokes and use them to log in to the users’ Grammarly accounts.

Category Vulnerabilities Written by Feedproxy 0 Comments

Malicious Chrome Extension Steals Data Posted to Any Website

30

Oct

2017

Malicious browser extensions continue to bear fruit for hackers who have been using them to spread banking malware and adware, and hijacking popular add-ons to spread other nasty code. The latest abuse involves a Google Chrome extension being spread in phishing emails that steals any data posted online by victims. This is a departure from […]

Category Malware Phishing Written by Threatpost 0 Comments

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