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As many as many people are infected with Chrome along with Edge browser extensions which steal private data and divert users to malware or ad websites, a security company said on Wednesday.
Overall, researchers in Prague-based Avast stated they discovered 28 extensions to its Google Chrome along with Microsoft Edge browsers which included malware. Even the add-ons charged themselves as a means to download images, videos, and other material from websites such as Facebook, Instagram, Vimeo, and Spotify. In the time this informative article went {} , but not all, some of those malicious extensions stayed available for downloading in Google and Microsoft.
Avast researchers discovered malicious code at the JavaScript-based extensions that permits them to download malware on an infected computer. At a article , the investigators wrote:
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