Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Corrupt Malware in Google extensions!


It sounds weird when we come to know some facts about well known organization. In the IEEE conference on security and privacy a strange reality came to the forefront that almost 5 percent people worldwide, who log on to Google and download data, files etc. become victim of malware. This is recognized as malicious extension by chrome experts. They are really trying to do their best but this is purely an arduous task to eliminate these extensions and start this browser with fresh inning. 

Market Research report has provided a data in which it was clearly mentioned that one third of the population is suffering from almost four or more affected add-ons which get installed in their browser without their knowledge.

Google’s anti malware cyber team will soon develop a technology to eradicate malware extensions. Till date search engine has eliminated about 200 malware extensions per day. Research work brought further to the notice that every big browser is witnessing malicious file extensions. Google said that 14million people had been deceived while using these extensions. Malware has managed to sneak on users’ by stealing login names, passwords, bank accounts and other usable data. Group of developers created these malware to generate good income unethically.

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