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Google kept featuring this Chrome extension for months after it turned malicious (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Security researchers had publicly documented the network behind it in October 2024, and Microsoft removed the Edge version in February 2025, stating that it was "malware." Meanwhile, Google didn't remove the extension until March 2026, months after it had been running malicious code on over a million browsers.

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[–] mimic_dev@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

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