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."
(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.