{"id":7359,"date":"2026-03-09T11:16:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/chrome-extension-turns-malicious-after-ownership-transfer-enabling-code-injection-and-data-theft\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:16:50","slug":"chrome-extension-turns-malicious-after-ownership-transfer-enabling-code-injection-and-data-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/chrome-extension-turns-malicious-after-ownership-transfer-enabling-code-injection-and-data-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome Extension Turns Malicious After Ownership Transfer, Enabling Code Injection and Data Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bTwo Google Chrome extensions have turned malicious after what appears to be a case of ownership transfer, offering attackers a way to push malware to downstream customers, inject arbitrary code, and harvest sensitive data.<br \/>\nThe extensions in question, both originally associated with a developer named &#8220;akshayanuonline@gmail.com&#8221; (BuildMelon), are listed below &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>QuickLens &#8211; Search Screen with\u00a0Two Google Chrome extensions have turned malicious after what appears to be a case of ownership transfer, offering attackers a way to push malware to downstream customers, inject arbitrary code, and harvest sensitive data.<br \/>\nThe extensions in question, both originally associated with a developer named &#8220;akshayanuonline@gmail.com&#8221; (BuildMelon), are listed below &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>QuickLens &#8211; Search Screen with\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bTwo Google Chrome extensions have turned malicious after what appears to be a case of ownership transfer, offering attackers a way to push malware to downstream customers, inject arbitrary code, and harvest sensitive data. The extensions in question, both originally associated with a developer named &#8220;akshayanuonline@gmail.com&#8221; (BuildMelon), are listed below &#8211; QuickLens &#8211; Search Screen&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/chrome-extension-turns-malicious-after-ownership-transfer-enabling-code-injection-and-data-theft\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chrome Extension Turns Malicious After Ownership Transfer, Enabling Code Injection and Data Theft<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}