A few hours ago, Google removed the popular extension του προγράμματος περιήγησης Chrome, The Great Suspender από το extensions web store, γιατί η εγκαθιστούσε malicious software on users' systems.
Those who opened multiple tabs in the Google Chrome browser noticed that they consumed a lot μνήμη RAM as well as enough processing power. The Chrome The Great Suspender browser extension addressed this issue, as it promised to fix it. The extension allows you to suspend your tabs so that they do not consume memory.
Last year the developer of the extension changed it code, as you can read in this post on GitHub. There is a note that the browser extension can now install malware on the target system. Starting with her version 7.1.8, added an exploit to the code of The Great Suspender extension that could run almost any type of code on a user's computer without their knowledge.
Microsoft also removed the extension from the Microsoft Edge extensions web store.
Thus the extension was forcibly disabled on all the systems that had been installed.