Quote from: ranman09 on December 22, 2018, 02:17:52 AM

Quote from: Piggy on December 16, 2018, 07:10:52 AM

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 Roll Eyes

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?

AFAIK, google releases the extensions onto the market without them being 100% verified first. There's just simply way too many extensions being uploaded, they wouldn't be able to manually approve each one.

They employ individuals to respond to reports, and perform spot checks (and I'm sure they have automated systems to catch most things/conventional attacks); but at the end of the day it's primarily up to the user to verify.