What just happened? We know that malicious apps occasionally sneak their way onto the Play Store, but that’s not the only place where Google’s security is a bit lapse. The company has just removed 106 extensions from its Chrome Web Store for collecting sensitive user data.
A report from Awake Security identified 111 malicious Chrome extensions that had been downloaded almost 33 million times by May 2020—when the company contacted Google.
Most extensions purported to warn users about dangerous websites,









