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Chrome extension hacked, ads forced on over 30,000 users
short by Shifa Naseer / on Tuesday, 1 August, 2017
Chrome extension 'Copyfish' was recently hacked to flood its 30,000 users with ads. The hack took place when one of Copyfish's developers accessed a malicious link in an email. The email urged the developer to update his extension, or it would be removed from the Chrome Web Store. It took Copyfish team a day to realise the attack.
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