Week 9

 https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/experts-uncover-350-browser-extension.html

Experts are finding many popular chrome/firefox/opera browser extensions have malicious duplicates that users may accidentally install instead of the real ones.

Usually, these malicious extensions cause popups and gather personal information, but they can also inject JavaScript code into various websites the user visits such as YouTube or Facebook.

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