Hackers are bypassing Google search protections to push malicious Chrome extensions.
I recently reported how millions of Google Chrome users were being put at risk by dozens of fake browser extensions as part of an attack that replaced the genuine ones in order to bypass 2FA protections. If you thought that things couldn’t get much worse, you’d be wrong: new security and privacy analysis has revealed how hackers are manipulating Google’s search protections to expose hundreds of millions more users to malicious and potentially dangerous extensions. Here’s what you need to know.