Google Extensions Chrome contained malicious software. Google deleted them

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16. 4. 2020

Google Online Store Chrome offers a large number of different extensions and improvements for this browser. However, about 500 of these add-ons contained malicious software, linked to other websites, or even stole users' cryptocurrency. So Google removed them from the store. If a user had them activated, they were removed from their browser. However, researchers believe that there are more similar unwanted extensions and are working to find and remove them.

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