Over 100 malicious Google Chrome extensions were removed.

111 Google Chrome extensions were identified as malicious by cybersecurity company Awake Security. Awake team said that extensions were able to take screenshots, read the clipboard, steal user’s passwords and authentication cookies bypassing Chrome Web Store. Identified extensions were downloaded more than 32 million times, according to Awake.

Source and developers of these findings are unknown but Awake team assumes they can be developed by the same cybercriminal based on the similarities in the codebase.

Google deactivated 106 malicious extensions in Chrome and warned their customers.