Segura added that a Chromebook remains as vulnerable as any other computer to “man-in-the-middle” attacks, in which a hostile WiFi network (or a wireless router that’s been remotely hacked) can start spying on your Web traffic or redirecting it to other malicious sites.
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Android malware exists and can sweep across phones in vast quantities, but almost all of it arrives via third-party app stores, not Google’s Play Store. The newfound ability of Chrome OS to run Android apps-it’s confined to a few recent Chromebooks now, but this feature announced last summer should soon arrive on more models-adds an exceedingly low but non-zero possibility of infection. Last year, he found one such extension had been downloaded over a thousand times before Google yanked it from the Chrome Web Store. “We are seeing more and more aggressive malicious advertising (malvertising) campaigns that trick or force users to install bogus extensions,” said Jérôme Segura, lead malware-intelligence analyst at the security firm Malwarebytes. That kind of page hijacking can also present the user with a prompt to install a malicious third-party extension-a browser add-on that runs inside of Chrome.