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Fake news headline. There is no virus installed on millions of computer.
An extension typosquatting an extension with million of install managed to be installed a few hundred of times.
I believe they're referring to lower down in the article, where the researchers analyzed existing extensions on the marketplace:
If you look at the code of one of the "malicious code", it hit a ... local IP, not a remote one.
Does that mean the hacker is in my room??
We're seeing connections from IP addresses that aren't even routable on the internet. We're compromised. Time to format.
Turns out you were the hacker all along