The latest high-profile heist of valuable digital currency has nothing to do with Bitcoin or Ethereum. Nope, this time thieves are stealing currency and assets from Roblox players. Roblox is a massively popular kid's game platform that has a disturbing amount of real money trading hands, and it's become the target of a series of Chrome extensions hiding malware.
According to Bleeping Computer (fave.co/3VZ3ZNZ), at least two extensions posted to the official Chrome Web Store were fronts for a backdoor program that gathers a Roblox player's user info and potentially makes them a target for hacking, especially if they're also a user of the third-party Rolimons.com currency trading system.
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