How to Spot a ‘Sleeper’ Browser Extension That’s Actually Malware
via koi.ai
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Malicious extensions do occasionally find their way into the Chrome Web Store (and similar libraries in other browsers) by posing as legitimate add-ons. They are particularly difficult to catch when they are benign to begin with, only morphing into malware after gaining user trust. That’s what happened with a number of extensions on Google Chrome […]