Researchers reveal a new attack that impersonates your browser extensions and steals your data

As antivirus apps get better at spotting malicious processes, bad actors step up their game to counter them. The arms race has gotten so intense that malicious agents are beginning to deploy some seriously nasty tactics to fool people into installing and keeping a virus on their system. Now, researchers have found a new attack vector that can impersonate your active extensions and hide in plain sight, albeit you shouldn't panic just yet.