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Malicious Chrome extensions: a cat and mouse game

Google Chrome users are being targeted these days by a wave of attacks that uses malicious extensions hosted in the official Web Store. The attack appears to be of Turkish origin and is using Facebook to spread. Users of different nationalities are infected with the malicious extensions, which the cybercriminals are sending to the official store regularly, in a cat-and-mouse game. After installation on a users computer the extension does a number of malicious things; such as doing a like on several profiles of users and company pages, as part of a scheme to sell likes”]

Source: https://securelist.com/malicious-chrome-extensions-a-cat-and-mouse-game-18/35124/

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