152 'live wallpaper' Chrome extensions caught harvesting user data and faking Google search traffic
Socket's Threat Research Team uncovered a coordinated family of 152 new-tab 'live wallpaper' Chrome extensions, spread across 38 publisher accounts and three brands, that secretly logged user telemetry and laundered extension-generated visits into fake Google organic search traffic despite declaring they collected no data.
- Victim
- Google Chrome Web Store users