Unfortunately there is the misconception that running a google extensions is safer than running an exe, for unexperienced users. Plus people may think it's safe because it's from Google 
How is the situation for Firefox extensions?
I'm afraid since this scam is quite easy to pull is just going to get worse the situation with these extensions..
How is the situation for Firefox extensions?
I'm afraid since this scam is quite easy to pull is just going to get worse the situation with these extensions..
Really sad this what I thought of in the first place. I trusted google too much. So this means that its really easy for a hacker to upload a malware through a trusted source like google. Now I don't know what to do and where to actually download trusted sources. Should we know how to crack exe and extensions and read them?