Infected Chrome extensions available via Facebook are stealing your information

There is an old saying where I come from that goes, “You can’t be too rich or too beautiful.” Well, in today’s digital world I think it needs to include, “You can’t be too careful online or have too much security.” Time for Facebook (FB) users to take this new advice to heart as several Chrome extensions promoted on FB have been found to install malicious code in the user’s browsers.

The malicious code takes what it learns from the user’s FB and Instagram accounts and sends infected links to all the user’s contacts in hopes of repeating the infection process. Unfortunately, the malware is resistant to removal. It blacklists certain Google and FB clean-up tools and will hide its browser tab when a user attempts to remove it.

Estimates are that 100,000 users have been infected since March of this year and that $1,000.00 in cryptocurrencies, mostly Monero, were generated in just six days.

There are seven extensions known to be involved (see below). Google has removed them, but security researchers are urging caution as others may still be circulating through social media sites. If you installed any of these extensions, you need to remove them immediately using anti-virus tools and to change your FB and Instagram passwords.

We believe that everyone has the right to protect their information and keep their privacy. Integrity is a core value, and they see the vast potential of a decentralized, distributed solution like Blockchain as a key match in this space.

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