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by troq13 804 days ago
HBO watch party. If relays a fake costumer support chat if you visit a site like united airlines, that puts you in touch with scammers (probably does other malwary stuff too). A friend almost got scammed by this, they reported it to someone they know who works at Google and a couple months later the extension is still up.

Tbh that is the only actual example I know, but after poking around a bit, ppl who actually know about security say that's the state of things with these extension and app store apps, and nobody at google seems to think fixing it is their job.

Funny thing is, they were asking this google friend for advice about getting rid of the malicious chat before they realized it was this chrome extension. The advice the google employee gave was to format the computer (it wouldn't have fixed it because once they logged into chrome again all the extensions would come back).

Hard sell that people running this clown show could be doing PQC in any meaningful sense (other than publishing papers. The papers are fine).
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j2kun 804 days ago
There was a previous one removed a few months ago for malware called HBO Max Watch Party. Was that it? If you have a specific extension id I can file a bug on your behalf.

And after reading about the situation internally, I can confirm there are dozens of people working on this problem, and that you have no idea what you're talking about. So please try to be a bit more humble.

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troq13 803 days ago
Actually never mind, I double checked and it was just HBO watch party (it is still up and has the malware). I appreciate if you can take a look at this.
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troq13 803 days ago
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hbo-watch-party/dn...

This is the link to the malicious extension.

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j2kun 797 days ago
It has been removed, along with a dozen others that did similar tricks. I also looked for a prior report and didn't find any for this extension, which suggests to me that the extension has not been reported before. I suggest in the future using the existing malware reporting forms on the Chrome extension store, rather than venting in HN comment threads.
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troq13 804 days ago
Yes I am checking the link my friend sent me now it it was that one, it is down. Thank you for your interest.
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