Navigateur Chrome : Vérifiez vos extensions !

 

 Le temps est venu de faire un grand nettoyage de printemps parmi les extensions de Chrome.

Avast et un spécialise de la cybersécurité, Wladimir Palant, auteur de la célèbre extension de navigateur AdBlock, viennent de publier des listes d'extensions du navigateur Chrome à virer immédiatement. 

Ces extensions ne sont plus disponibles au téléchargement. Pour Avasr, la liste comprend 32 extensions malignes téléchargées 75 millions de fois...Pour Wladilir Palant, sa liste contient 18 extensions installées 55 millions de fois ! Il est urgentissime de vérifier vos smartphones même si ces applications ns sont plus disponibles au téléchargement ! Le Google Store confirme être une véritable passoire pour la sécurité.

 

Avast discovered 32 malicious extensions with a whopping 75 million combined installs that were available on the Chrome Web Store. In the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, new threats emerge every day. Our team at Avast recently discovered a series of malicious browser extensions on the Chrome Web Store that are spreading adware and hijacked search results. These are significant threats, as these attacks affect approximately 24,000 of our users and potentially millions more worldwide.Read more

Two weeks ago I wrote about the PDF Toolbox extension containing obfuscated malicious code. Despite reporting the issue to Google via two different channels, the extension remains online. It even gained a considerable number of users after I published my article. A reader tipped me off however that the Zoom Plus extension also makes a request to serasearchtop[.]com. I checked it out and found two other versions of the same malicious code. And I found more extensions in Chrome Web Store which are using it.Read more