What happens when Chrome Extensions get sold?

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A legitimate Chrome extension called Quick Lens was sold on a marketplace and converted into malware that stole crypto and deployed ClickFix attacks on 7,000 users. The extension gained new permissions to strip browser security headers, enabling JavaScript injection from a C2 server. A marketplace exists where extensions with

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