Chrome Extensions Exposed by Phishing

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Hackers injected malicious code into several Chrome extensions in recent attack

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Cyberhaven said its Chrome extension was compromised on December 24 in an attack that appeared to be “targeting logins to specific social media advertising and AI platforms” Cyberhaven notified its customers on December 26 in an email seen by.

The malicious extension targeted Facebook Ads users, with a goal of stealing data such as access tokens and user IDs.

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