We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data
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Re: We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data
#2Nice ad.
Re: We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data
#3Black theme of tool makes me chuckle. Wondering how it became defacto color theme of hacking tools! Only thing missing is neon green.
Re: We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data
#4The blog post was moderately informative/useful and interesting, marketing brochure website behind it next to useless and can't find anything meaningful about what they actually sell or do. Frustrating follow-up experience for me that reminds me of most enterprise ISVs.
Re: We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data
#5As of this writing, the malicious "Postman" extension is still available in the Google Chrome extension store and has been downloaded over 27,000 times.
This is pretty much par for the course, unfortunately.
Re: We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data
#6Black theme of tool makes me chuckle. Wondering how it became defacto color theme of hacking tools! Only thing missing is neon green.
Or blue. It's cool. It's what the cool hackers like,accept it! :P
Re: We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data
#7Black theme of tool makes me chuckle. Wondering how it became defacto color theme of hacking tools! Only thing missing is neon green.
Probably because all true hackers sit all day long in a dark underground room, lit only by the dim glow of their monitor refracting through puffs of cigarette smoke.
Re: We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data
#8The blog post was moderately informative/useful and interesting, marketing brochure website behind it next to useless and can't find anything meaningful about what they actually sell or do. Frustrating follow-up experience for me that reminds me of most enterprise ISVs.
It is a network traffic analysis product. You send it traffic via port mirror and it analyzes for shady behavior. Here’s the main overview of what it is https://www.extrahop.com/products/security/
Re: We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data
#9As of this writing, the malicious "Postman" extension is still available in the Google Chrome extension store and has been downloaded over 27,000 times. This is pretty much par for the course, unfortunately.
Yep. Pretty hard to police. Unlikely to be removed until it gets quite a lot of attention.
Re: We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data
#10Here’s a ZDNet article about the same extension https://www.zdnet.com/article/industrial-espionage-fears-ari...