Potentially malicious browser extensions

I’ve been documenting lots of potentially malicious browser extensions in Chrome Web Store [1] [2] [3]. As the lists of affected extension IDs are getting long and difficult to keep track of, I decided to add them to this repository (see list.txt).

Note: Some extensions listed are no longer available via Chrome Web Store. If they were installed prior to removal however, they often remain installed.

Using check-extensions utility

Instead of checking extension IDs against the list manually, you can also download the check-extensions utility. When run without parameters, it will try locating all browser profiles of Chrome and Chromium-based browsers under your user account. A list of browser profiles to check can also be given explicitly as command line parameters.