![]() Who discovered it? cheph, who invokes Schoolman and Serra: ![]() Google declined to comment … how this add-on slipped through the net. … The add-on’s code contained a suspicious URL that took the browser to a website hosted in Poland tried to phish netizens by redirecting them to a fake login page and asking for account credentials. The legit Microsoft Authenticator password-manager-like features. … When someone submitted a dodgy Chrome add-on called Microsoft Authenticator to the browser’s store, one would hope Google would have given it more than a cursory glance. The trustworthiness of Google’s Chrome Store was again called into question after an extension billing itself as Microsoft Authenticator was published by the software souk. Katyanna Quach agrees-“ The Microsoft Authenticator extension in the Chrome store wasn’t actually made by Microsoft. Still, more than 400 users have installed the extension already. In this case, it is pretty obvious that the extension is … fake. One hint that something is off is that the company that is offering the extension is not Microsoft Corporation but “Extensions.” … The developer email … uses a Gmail address, and not an official Microsoft address. … The name suggests that it is an official product by Microsoft, but it is not. What’s the craic? Martin Brinkmann reports-“ Don’t download this Microsoft Authenticator extension”:Įxtension stores that rely on automatic … submission reviews are more prone to fake and malicious extensions being offered. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. But shouldn’t we expect more of Google, given how much it crows about its AI chops?Īnd Firefox won’t save you, either. In today’s SB Blogwatch, we burn the whole thing down.
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