Security News > 2018 > September > Trojanized Extension Uploaded to Google’s Chrome Store
2018-09-07 15:52
A trojanized version of the MEGA extension was uploaded to the Google Chrome webstore and automatically pushed to users via the autoupdate mechanism.
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