Your favorite image-saving Chrome extension was scraping your data for cash

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Seemingly out of nowhere, the “Save image as Type” Chrome extension was marked for removal, with Google warning users that the extension contains malware. The extension had at least one million users.

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Juniya Sankara is a veteran systems administrator and open-source advocate who has been configuring Linux environments since childhood. When he isn't hardening kernel security or testing desktop environments in his hardware lab, he writes deep-dive technical tutorials for UbuntuFree, WindowsMode, and ChromeGeek.