BAD-ONS (2 PART)

What new ads should block, and those rights are those that give a great reach, which make these extensions into appetizing tools for cyber criminals, confirms philipp wolf, vice president of research laboratories of Avira: "the extension can read, manipulate and transmit to third parties the data sent or received through the browser. "

PRECISION AND DISCRETION

The attraction that cybercriminals find in add-ons is their discreet appearance. Harmless extensions that escape the radar of most antivirus programs. This can have fatal consequences, because these cybercriminals can transform, through a remote update over the internet, a antepero extension, after a remote update, could steal passwords.

A HARD BONE OF ROER FOR THE ANTIVIRUS

Simple antivirus software can hardly recognize such actions since, in origin, the extensions are installed on the PC without malicious intent, and it is only after they are updated that they change to the "parasite" mode. Once they get the desired data, they switch back to "harmless" mode. It is possible that some advanced security packages with the highest level of technology can detect these types of threats. Google knows this risk. So, at the beginning of the year, a new organization bought the popular extensions "add to feedly" and "Tweet this page" for Chrome.

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