Over 70 data harvesting apps in the Chrome Web Store have been discovered by researchers at Awake Security. Chrome users had downloaded the malware some 32 million times; several of the apps boasted of privacy protecting features, but instead forwarded the Chrome user's browsing data to a network of 15,000 websites hosted by Israeli web registrar Galcomm. Scott Westover, a representative for Google, had this to say: "When we are alerted of extensions in the Web Store that violate our policies, we take action and use those incidents as training material."
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Saturday June 20 2020, @01:18PM (1 child)
You mean besides Chrome itself?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2020, @01:35PM
Chrome detects a new threat to privacy: chrome.exe
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday June 20 2020, @01:36PM (4 children)
Age related memory problems already, editors?
It was only yesterday that we had the same TFA [soylentnews.org], from the same source.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Funny) by looorg on Saturday June 20 2020, @02:00PM (1 child)
It's a memory leak in the malicious posting app.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2020, @02:16PM
Where's APK when we need help with stuff like this?
(Score: 3, Funny) by captain normal on Saturday June 20 2020, @10:29PM (1 child)
Yep we are easily duped.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday June 21 2020, @01:42AM
I see what you did there.
(Score: 2) by Kalas on Saturday June 20 2020, @01:39PM (3 children)
Why are we getting a repeat of the same news reported 2 days ago, using the exact same Reuters article linked in TFS?
Massive Spying on Users of Google's Chrome Browser Reveals New Security Weakness [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2020, @02:21PM (1 child)
Because the editors get paid by the posting.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday June 20 2020, @10:04PM
hold on, you expect the editors to read each others' posts?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday June 21 2020, @01:45AM
Because it is that important for everyone to know about it. ... trundles off to check the many extensions...
(Score: 5, Informative) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday June 20 2020, @02:30PM
it should be a headline every day on every website in the world that google and facebook and apple and amazon are dangerous bullshit ruining the world.
(apologies for the short list, twitter, akamai, goldman sachs, NCR, amdocs...)
They are not going to stop until we stop them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2020, @04:52PM
So they didn't know. They not only spy, they lie.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2020, @05:30PM (1 child)
What a surprise to confirm again that khazar jews are liars, thieves and the scum of the worst kind. Israel was created by The Balfour Declaration [wikipedia.org] in order to provide a place for khazar jews to hide after their crimes have been discovered by humans.
A race of treacherous foreigners making humans build spyware for them (using stolen money) to spy on humans. Khazar jewish rats will continue doing this and will not stop because they found empathy for humans.
Earlier they used to hide in the shadows committing their nefarious acts. But now they do not even try to hide any more. This is a dangerous situation. They have all nations under control it seems that they commit their criminal acts openly. No free country will allow their citizens to be violated by the khazar jew rats.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2020, @07:55PM
OK Nazi