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Malicious gaming extensions: a child’s play to infection

April 3, 2018 admin Adware, cmptch, cybercrime, extensions, Gaming, malicious gaming extensions, slither, Social engineering, video games, webstore

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:30:00 +0000

Some gaming portals have been preying on children to get their malicious extensions installed. They use targeted advertizing and offer (already) free games as a reward for installing their adware.

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Cybercrime
Social engineering

Tags: adware cmptch extensions gaming malicious gaming extensions slither video games webstore

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