Malicious spyware campaign targeted at Google Chrome extensions

[PeteS in CA]

https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/malicious-spyware-campaign-targeted-google-chrome-extensions

Malicious spyware campaign targeted at Google Chrome extensions

Google Chrome web browser was discovered to be hosting multiple app extensions carrying spyware, Reuters reported.

Nearly 33 million people across the globe have downloaded malicious extensions in their favorite browser, possibly putting various usernames and passwords into the hands of hackers.
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Many of the fake extensions duped people and claimed to provide protection against malignant websites and entities trying to steal people’s data. Other extensions were common file converters.

The extensions pray on various vulnerabilities in a user’s computer. According to the report, they can “take screenshots, read the clipboard, harvest credential tokens stored in cookies or parameters, grab user keystrokes (like passwords),” among other ways to steal one’s data.

[Elderberry]

I only used Google Chrome to utilize an App to migrate genealogy data from Ancestry to Wikitree. I'll just move the data now sans
Goggle and it's app.

[PeteS in CA]

At work my available browser choices are IE (no longer supported by MS, IIRC), Chrome, and Firefox. I've moved away from IE, and Chrome is slightly less repugnant to me than FF. So Chrome it is, at work. At home I use Vivaldi, mostly, and occasionally Pale Moon.

The problem in the OP article seems to be malware creators targeting users of a popular browser and unwary users thereof.

[Fishrrman]

I wouldn't touch Chrome with a 10-foot pole.
And you shouldn't, either.