The latter borrowed several phrases from another popular extension called GoFullPage.

Besides offering the intended functionality, the extensions also tracked the users browsing activity.

How Did The Extensions Work?

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All 5 extensions perform similar behavior.

The data is delivered via POST requests every time the user visits a new URL.

At the time of writing, all 5 malicious Chrome extensions have been removed from the Google Play Store.

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However, this does not delete them from the web browsers.

Hence, users are recommended to manually uninstall them from their devices.

source: www.techworm.net