A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google's market-leading Chrome web browser, ...
SAN FRANCISCO: A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google's market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech industry's failure to protect browsers as they are used more for email, payroll and other sensitive functions.
Based on the number of downloads, it was the most far-reaching malicious Chrome store campaign to date, according to Awake co-founder and chief scientist Gary Golomb. The extensions were designed to avoid detection by antivirus companies or security software that evaluates the reputations of web domains, Golomb said.
All of the domains in question, more than 15,000 linked to each other in total, were purchased from a small registrar in Israel, Galcomm, known formally as CommuniGal Communication Ltd.In an email exchange, Galcomm owner Moshe Fogel told Reuters that his company had done nothing wrong. The Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees registrars, said it had received few complaints about Galcomm over the years, and none about malware.
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