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The NCC is asking telecom consumers to observe caution when installing browser extensions.

The Nigerian Communications Commission's Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) has identified five malicious Google Chrome Extensions that

The Nigerian Communications Commission's Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) has identified five malicious Google Chrome Extensions that surreptitiously track online browser’s activities and steal their data.

As per the report published on McAfee on their official website, there are these 5 Google Chrome extensions that are available on the Chrome Web Store, which says that they are the extensions made by Google itself, and further have around 1.4 million of total downloads.

The Chrome Web Store has some very convincing extensions that inject malicious code into ecommerce websites you visit.

More than 1.4 million devices have been installed with a set of malicious Google Chrome extension More than 1. 4 million devices have been installed with a set of malicious Google Chrome extensions.

McAfee found five malicious Chrome extensions with 1.4 million combined users.

Google Chrome extensions can super-charge your browsing experience with more features, but there have been many malicious extensions over the years. Five more bad extensions have been discovered, thanks to a recent security report.

McAfee warns of five malicious Chrome extensions that track users’ browsing activity to inject code into ecommerce pages.

As you probably know, Google decided to switch from Manifest V2 to Manifest V3. That's why today we are releasing an experimental browser extension that meets all the requirements of Manifest V3 and blocks ads properly within its tight confines.