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Chrome Extension with 100,000 Users Caught Pushing Cryptocurrency Miner

A Chrome extension with over 105,000 users has been deploying an in-browser cryptocurrency miner to unsuspecting users for the past few weeks. The extension is advertised as a mod for Tumblr that allows users an easier way to “reblog

Source: allowing the extension to continue to be available on the official Chrome Web Store.”

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