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Popular Chrome extensions hijacked by hackers in widespread cyberattack
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The extensions in question in case you can't access the article.
All of these already sound shady.
I had the "Page Refresh" one... disabled, but still installed. There are multiple "[Auto] [Easy] Page/Tab Refresh/Reload" extensions in the store, hard to pick one that won't go rogue.
"Page refresh". You mean F5 (or ctrl + r) right?
Yes, every 30 seconds, for hours on end.
Useful for many things, starting with CI/CD status panels.
A lot harder to do when it’s not on your computer. At work we have some TVs displaying a web oage full screen. I’m not gonna vnc in just to hit F5 every 30 minutes.
You can set the webpage to self refresh on interval by itself no extensions needed.
We already have it for every 20 minutes but sometimes it fails for various reasons. 30 minutes is the backup before I just reboot it.