Chrome Extensions Used To Steal Users Secrets
McAfee highlighted in its recent publication some Chrome extensions used by crooks to get some benefits using affiliate IDs in eCommerce websites visited by victims. According to McAfee’s analysis, more than 1,400,000 users were affected and victims of this schema from the five analyzed extensions. Figure 1: Malicious Chrome extensions scrutinized by the McAfee research team. As observed, these extensions have a specific purpose depending on their nature. One of them is related to Netflix and enables users to watch Netflix content together; another can be used to take screenshots of a website, etc....