Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots
ID: 92fd5463-8260-5190-908b-f352abcad663
STIX ID: report--92fd5463-8260-5190-908b-f352abcad663
Feed Name: Ars Technica Security
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The report explains that multiple browser extensions using a tracking library collected and shared sensitive user data (including documents, photos, medical and financial information, and corporate proprietary files), reminiscent of the 2019 Nacho Analytics data-scraping operation. It provides counts of affected extensions across Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, notes some removals or remediation, and links to a published list of identified extensions and a vendor response.
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