Skip to content

Comment on We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal dataparent

Comments

cwsOP

Yep that’s a great point. That deprecation probably contributed to the gap that the malware uploader exploited. People expect an extension called postman, and they find it. Their guard is down and they download the fake one. I don’t know the solution but there has to be a better way for App/extension stores to handle this relatively common scenario.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.