Trusted Chrome extensions being used for spreading malware, hackers buy extensions

This is going to amaze many people across the world. Trusted Chrome extensions are now being used for spreading malware and hackers are buying extensions too with large members.Hackers are now taking their business rather more seriously than we thought. They are now trying to make their business look legit to attract more and more people get to feel them trust worthy. Now there are reports that these people who have made the life difficult for millions and millions of people across the world are going to the extent of buying trusted chrome browser extensions. Through the new trick they are able to hoodwink others about their intention and appear legit.So the features that were meant to increase privacy and protect people are MB STARnow being misused to befool people. Extensions are extra features and functionality that you can easily add to Google Chrome. By using extensions, you can customize Google Chrome with features you like, while keeping your browser free of things that you don’t use. A report says that hackers have now become so much smart that they are buying well-known and respected Chrome browser extensions with a large installed-base and exploiting their auto-update status to push out adware.

Now hackers and other people with bad intentions who want to infect computers besides tablets and smartphones are now taking an advance route. In order to entice you into installing their malware like adware, online ad affiliate marketers are exploiting Google’s “autoupdating” policy for Chrome extensions. So one thing that was meant to improve your security is being misused to compromise the security.x431 IV But now reports suggest that search giant seems to have started taking tough action against these people and reports suggest the company has removed two Chrome extensions from its web store for breaching its developer policies. But this didn’t happen automatically and people had to complain over a period of time to get Google act on the issue.Amit Agrawal who had made a Chrome Extension ‘Add to Feedly’ that was recently removed by Google was surprised when his extension was bought for a huge sum by an unknown person. “I had no clue about the buyer and was also curious to know why would anyone pay this kind of money for such a simple Chrome extension…These aren’t regular banner ads that you see on web pages, these are invisible ads that work the background and replace links on every website that you visit into affiliate links.akupunktur kolding In simple English, if the extension is activated in Chrome, it will inject adware into all web pages”. Other extension developers were also approached by these fraudsters, but many refused.