{"id":11222,"date":"2026-03-10T07:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/chrome-extension-turns-malicious-after-html\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T07:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:03:27","slug":"chrome-extension-turns-malicious-after-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/chrome-extension-turns-malicious-after-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome Extension Turns Malicious After Ownership Transfer, Enabling Code Injection and Data Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Chrome Extension Turns Malicious After Ownership Transfer, Enabling Code Injection and Data Theft<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Two Google Chrome extensions have turned malicious after what appears to be a case of ownership transfer, offering attackers a way to push malware to downstream customers, inject arbitrary code, and harvest sensitive data.<br \/>\nThe extensions in question, both originally associated with a developer named &#8220;akshayanuonline@gmail.com&#8221; (BuildMelon), are listed below &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>QuickLens &#8211; Search Screen with<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/chrome-extension-turns-malicious-after.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrome Extension Turns Malicious After Ownership Transfer, Enabling Code Injection and Data Theft Two Google Chrome extensions have turned malicious after what appears to be a case of ownership transfer, offering attackers a way to push malware to downstream customers, inject arbitrary code, and harvest sensitive data. The extensions in question, both originally associated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-11222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}