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This is the second extension that I use on chrome that has been hijacked. The first was live http headers [0] I have never had this experience on Firefox. Is
by flyGuyOnTheSly 9y ago
This is the second extension that I use on chrome that has been hijacked.
The first was live http headers [0]
I have never had this experience on Firefox.
Is it simply a matter of Chrome being a bigger target?
[0] https://www.webmasterworld.com/webmaster/4829365.htm https://www.webmasterworld.com/webmaster/4829365.htm
- Buge 9y agoThe Great Suspender Chrome extension was also phished https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender/issues/512 https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender/issues/512
- zootam 9y agobut apparently non-maliciously
- Buge 9y agoWhat do you mean? I thought the attacker stole the account maliciously, but hadn't quite gotten around to inserting the malware by the time it was taken back.
- flyGuyOnTheSly 9y agoThe live http headers hacking was quite embarrassing for myself personally. I had strong suspicions that a certain webhost a new client of mine utilized was both prone to attack, and not very forthcoming when past attacks had occurred. So when I loaded their own website one day and found it full of ads for russian pornography... I confirmed my own bias that the webhost had been hacked... deleted the account, and moved everything over to AWS. Changed all the passwords, freaked out a bit, etc... Then I realized that it was just the extension I was running that injected those ads... d'oh!
- steel88 9y agoTypewriter sounds , Twitch window which always on top , one of the Youtube UI upgrade extension, but in this case author simply sell extensions to malicious company
- kasbah 9y agoMozilla review every update. It means it take much longer to get releases out, sometimes months, but will avoid situations like this.