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Malicious Chrome Extensions in official Store serve infected links on Facebook

Security experts at TrendMicro have uncovered a new malicious campaign based on a Chrome extension deployed on the official Chrome Store. Bad actors behind the malicious campaign exploit social media platform for their attack, they spammed messages on Facebook containing a link to a video related to drunk girls. The victims of the campaign are mainly based in Brazil, other countries with a meaningful number of infections are the UK, the US and Argentina. The malicious Chrome extension is able to impersonate victims on Facebook posting comments, sending messages and links to serve malicious links.”]

Source: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/28251/cyber-crime/malicious-chrome-extensions.html

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