Popular Chrome extensions hijacked by hackers in widespread cyberattack — 3.2 million at risk

Rasheed187 · Mar 9, 2025

This is completely nuts, keep in mind, these weren't new extensions, but these were trusted extensions that were simply modified/hijacked. The Chrome Web Store is pretty much a joke, let's face it. And even worse, why don't Chromium browsers allow you to disable auto-update of extensions?

Normally with malicious extensions or apps, they’re made from the ground up with the sole purpose of stealing data and their advertised functionality is an afterthought or just tacked on so that they can be listed in an official store. With the extensions above though, this wasn’t the case at all.

Instead, these were actual, legitimate extensions that went bad as a result of having malicious updates injected into them. The way in which the hackers gained control over these extensions is also a bit different.
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https://www.tomsguide.com/computing...om-malicious-extensions-delete-them-right-now

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