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Hackers Hijacked Chrome Extension for Web Developers With Over 1 Million Users

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From past few years, spammers and cyber criminals were buying web extensions from their developers and then updating them without informing their users to inject bulk advertisements into every website user visits in order to generate large revenue.

But now they have shifted their business model—instead of investing, spammers have started a new wave of phishing attacks aimed at hijacking

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Someone Hijacks A Popular Chrome Extension to Push Malware

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Phishers have recently hacked an extension for Google Chrome after compromising the Chrome Web Store account of German developer team a9t9 software and abused to distribute spam messages to unsuspecting users.

Dubbed Copyfish, the extension allows use… Continue reading Someone Hijacks A Popular Chrome Extension to Push Malware→