Google and Mozilla took shady browser add-ons to task recently in massive clean-up operations
Share to twitterYou can expect to find malware lurking just about anywhere you can download a file these days. Google and Mozilla’s online repositories for web browser add-ons are no exception.to make sure that the virtual shelves are kept malware-free.
Google deemed the situation it dealt with recently so serious that it temporary disabled transactions via the Chrome Web Store payments system. Paid extensions, subscriptions, and in app-purchases were all temporarily blocked.posted to a Chromium developer list, Google had discovered an alarming number of “premium” browser extensions attempting to defraud Chrome users.
Elsewhere on the web, Mozilla was was busy cleaning house. In total, 197 add-ons were ejected from theSome may have been caught by technicalities, such as the execution of remote code. Mozilla takes a hard line against the practice in the name of security and requires all browser add-ons to be entirely self-contained.
Many users don’t realize just how much power a browser extension can have. The reality is that even a seemingly harmless one can present all kinds of risks — from harvesting sensitive browsing data to redirecting connections to injecting malicious code into web pages.
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