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After phishing attacks, Chrome extensions push adware to millions
- gschrader 9y agoAfter getting hit by this yesterday and finding it not very easy to find which extension was affected I went through a big extension purge. Most of the extensions I had installed I never really ever used.
- nobodyorother 9y agoDoes anybody remember this? Why do we assume the adware was the end result and not just a vector for something worse? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/millions-exposed-to-malvertising-that-hid-attack-code-in-banner-pixels/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/milli...