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Google has removed 106 malicious Chrome extensions that have been caught collecting sensitive user data.
The 106 extensions are part of a batch of 111 Chrome extensions that have been identified as malicious in a report published today by cyber-security firm Awake Security.
Awake says these extensions posed as tools to improve web searches, convert files between different formats, as security scanners, and more.