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Chrome extensions with 1.4 million installs track users for affiliate payment scam

September 1, 2022

Via: TechSpot

This week, a report from McAfee’s security researchers highlighted five Google Chrome extensions that tracked users and manipulated the websites they visited. Collectively, almost a million and a half users installed the extensions.

Two of the extensions masqueraded as functions letting users hold Netflix watch parties, while another impersonated a screenshot capture extension. Most pertinent to the scammers’ goals were extensions for price tracking and automatically detecting flash sales.

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