{"id":5466,"date":"2018-09-12T04:26:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T08:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=5466"},"modified":"2018-09-12T04:42:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T08:42:56","slug":"no-1-adware-removal-tool-on-apple-app-store-caught-spying-on-mac-users-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/09\/12\/no-1-adware-removal-tool-on-apple-app-store-caught-spying-on-mac-users-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Hijacked MEGA Chrome Extension to Steal Users&#8217; Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official Chrome extension for the MEGA.nz cloud storage service had been compromised and replaced with a malicious version that can steal users&#8217; credentials for popular websites like Amazon, Microsoft, Github, and Google, as well as private keys for users&#8217; cryptocurrency wallets.<\/p>\n<p>On 4 September at 14:30 UTC, an unknown attacker managed to hack into MEGA&#8217;s Google Chrome web store account and upload a malicious version 3.39.4 of an extension to the web store, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/blog_47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">blog post<\/a>\u00a0published by the company.<\/p>\n<p>Four hours after the security breach, the company learned of the incident and updated the extension with a clean MEGA version (3.39.5), auto-updating all the affected installations.\u00a0Google also removed the MEGA extension from its Chrome Web Store five hours after the breach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/09\/mega-file-upload-chrome-extension.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/09\/mac-adware-removal-tool.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official Chrome extension for the MEGA.nz cloud storage service had been compromised and replaced with a malicious version that can steal users&#8217; credentials for popular websites like Amazon, Microsoft, Github, and Google, as well as private keys for users&#8217; cryptocurrency wallets. On 4 September at 14:30 UTC, an unknown attacker managed to hack into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[714426],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-01-it-governance","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}