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Google says less than 1% of Chrome extensions from Chrome Web Store have malware, but some bad extensions still get through.
Security-Noteworthy Extensions ( SNE ) still represent a serious problem, researchers say.
Over 346 million users installed a SNE in the last three years , they say.
The longest surviving malicious extension was available in the store for 8.5 years .
Researchers found thousands of Chrome Web Store extensions that share similar code.
60 percent of extensions have never been updated, meaning they miss out on security improvements built into the Manifest v3 platform revision.
A third of extensions use a JavaScript library with a known vulnerability.
Google says it is taking steps to remove support for outdated Manifest v2 extensions.
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