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Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware (go.theregister.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social to c/cybersecurity

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[–] GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 weeks ago

If only Google had prevented Chrome users from installing open source extensions from other platforms where Google doesn't check the code's changes and forced the ~~Chinese government~~ developer to upload a picture of their ID and pay a $5 fee, this could have been prevented!