Security News > 2017 > July > Someone Hijacks A Popular Chrome Extension to Push Malware (The Hackers News)
2017-07-31 10:01
Phishers have recently hacked an extension for Google Chrome after compromising the Chrome Web Store account of German developer team a9t9 software and abused to distribute spam messages to unsuspecting users. Dubbed Copyfish, the extension allows users to extract text from images, PDF documents and video, and has more than 37,500 users. Unfortunately, the Chrome extension of Copyfish has
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