Many of us already know what the google chrome extensions are, but some of you didn't know about them. Let me clear things about google chrome extensions for those who don't know about any of them.
What are Google Chrome Extensions?
Small types of software manually embedded by the users to help them to customize the browsing experience. These are also like any other software installed on your system. The developer published them on Google Web Store, and they are available for you in Google Chrome Dashboard. You can add or remove them inside the extension menu tab.
Well, that was a brief introduction to the Google Chrome Extensions. Now move to our original topic.
Is It True Google Chrome Extensions Are Spying On Us? Should we take this seriously?
Well, I'm not demanding, but the BBC does so. According to their report, Google Chrome extensions were downloaded more than 32 million times. And they were used to spy on the popular browsers through monitoring campaigns.
A Cybersecurity firm Awake Security found at least 111 "malicious or fake" extensions that were capable of taking screenshots, stealing your login, and passwords information as users typed in. This campaign impacted the financial sectors as well as the health and government organizations.
Since after the extensions flagged by Awake, Google confirmed that all the extensions were removed by them. Well, this isn't the good news that Google claiming that they already removed extensions from their Web Store because they were malicious. That means the Awake agency was right.
Google Spokesperson Scott Westover said in a statement provided to CNN Business, "We appreciate the work of the research community, and when we altered of extensions that violate our policies, we take action and use those incidents as training material to improve our automated and manual analyses."
Awake researchers said, "By exploiting the trust placed in it as a registrar, Galcomm has enabled malicious activity that has been found across more than a hundred networks we've examined."
They also said, "They found more than 15,000 Galcomm domains that were "malicious or suspicious."
For your extra information, Galcomm is an Israeli web hosting company that claims to manage almost 250,000 browser domains.
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