108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Steal Google and Telegram Data, Affecting 20,000 Users
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108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Steal Google and Telegram Data, Affecting 20,000 Users

April 14, 2026
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign in which a cluster of 108 Google Chrome extensions has been found to communicate with the same command-and-control (C2) infrastructure with the goal of collecting user data and enabling browser-level abuse by injecting ads and arbitrary JavaScript code into every web page visited. According to Socket, the extensions are published

108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Steal Google and Telegram Data, Affecting 20,000 Users
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