Chrome Extensions: The Hidden Backdoor – How Productivity Tools Can Hack You
Chrome Extensions: The Hidden Backdoor – How Productivity Tools Can Hack You If you have five minutes to save yourself from a potential breach, start with your browser extensions. Over the past year, security researchers have documented a steady increase in malicious Chrome extensions that start as legitimate productivity tools and later pivot into backdoors. The problem is not new, but the scale is. The FBI has reportedly investigated similar attacks, and recent reports highlight how attackers are now targeting enterprise environments through extensions that look perfectly harmless. ...