Not an issue but a PSA phising attempts on google extensions

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Not an issue but a PSA phising attempts on google extensions #2834

Closed gh0sti closed 7 years ago

gh0sti commented 7 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14888010

Just wanted to let you guys know to watch out for phising emails asking you to login. Looks like there maybe a campaign going out targeting google extension teams. This team didn't watch the link was directing them to a bit.ly and a fake page grabbing login credentials. I wonder if 2FA helps protect against these type of attacks if Google has implemented that.

[I replaced your link with what I consider a more appropriate one -- gorhill]

gorhill commented 7 years ago

I know about all this.

Closing and marking as invalid, as per CONTRIBUTING.

gorhill commented 7 years ago

Just a reminder to whoever worries this could happen to uBO: just install the extension manually from the repo here, this way you update whenever you choose, and can review all the code changes before installing a new version.