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Chrome Extension Turns Malicious After Ownership Transfer, Enabling Code Injection and Data Theft

Chrome Extension Turns Malicious After Ownership Transfer, Enabling Code Injection and Data Theft


Two Google Chrome extensions have turned malicious after what appears to be a case of ownership transfer, offering attackers a way to push malware to downstream customers, inject arbitrary code, and harvest sensitive data.
The extensions in question, both originally associated with a developer named “akshayanuonline@gmail.com” (BuildMelon), are listed below –

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Source: thehackernews.com –

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