#расширения-браузера
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319 Chrome extensions with 13.4 million installs hijacked searches for ad revenue
A Socket researcher has detailed a sprawling campaign in which hundreds of Chrome extensions quietly routed users' searches through operator-controlled servers to collect referral payments from Bing and Yahoo.
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Google and Microsoft Pull the ModHeader Extension over a Hidden Data Collector
Google and Microsoft have removed the popular ModHeader extension, with roughly 1.6 million installs, from their extension stores after researchers discovered a hidden mechanism for collecting browsing history inside it. The collector itself remained dormant.