{"id":57606,"date":"2017-08-07T11:09:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=57606"},"modified":"2017-08-08T11:09:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:09:03","slug":"malicious-chrome-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/malicious-chrome-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious Chrome Extension Impacts Over 1M Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Over 1M users download malicious Chrome extension<\/h3>\n<p>Chris Pederick, the creator of the Chrome extension Web Developer, was recently phished. \u00a0The cyber criminals effectively breached Pederick&#8217;s Google account, which was tied to the app. \u00a0Therefore, the cyber criminals were able to access the app and make any changes they wanted. \u00a0After doing just that, the hackers pushed out a new &#8220;updated version&#8221; of Web Developer. \u00a0It is believed, most of the changes included the ability to distribute spam ads to 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