- 33 dangerous extensions were discovered in Google Chrome
- For the past 18 months, it has been vacuuming up user data
- The problem affected 2.6 million devices
Google Chrome is a unique web browser that you can customize exactly to your needs thanks to many different extensions. But not all of these extensions are completely safe. And even if it’s about that Google he tries with all his might, from time to time he misses something. And now he missed quite a bit.
Company Cyberhavenwhich specializes in data protection, has shed light on various extensions used by hundreds of thousands of users in recent months. And the results of her investigation are very disturbing. Brown 33 of them namely, according to the available findings, literally stole data and sensitive user data. Fascinatingly, among them were (and still are) also many different AI assistants included chatGPT, Borders of Gemini.
At the same time, the first dangerous extension in Google Chrome was revealed already 18 months ago and it was found that 400,000 users were using it. All 33 dangerous elements were used in total 2.6 million users. And most of them had no idea that they were literally giving away their data because of their extensions.
List of dangerous extensions
The good news is that some of them are no longer available. But you are still different you can still download to Google Chrome – and maybe you even use them.
These are the following features that you should rather delete from your devices:
- VPNCity
- Parrot Talks
- Voice
- Internxt VPN
- Bookmark Favicon Changer
- Castorus
- Way of AI
- Search Copilot AI Assistant for Chrome
- VidHelper – Video Downloader
- AI Assistant – ChatGPT and Gemini for Chrome
- TinaMind – The GPT-4o-powered AI Assistant!
- Bard AI chat
- Reader Mode
- Tackker – online keylogger tool
- AI Shop Buddy
- Sort by Oldest
- Reader Mode
- Primus
- Email Hunter
- Visual Effects for Google Meet
- ChatGPT App
- Web Mirror
- Hi AI
- Cyberhaven security extension V3
- GraphQL Network Inspector
- GPT 4 Summary with OpenAI
- Vidnoz Flex – Video recorder & Video
- YesCaptcha assistant
- Proxy SwitchyOmega
- Rewards Search Automator
- Earny – Up to 20% Cash Back
- ChatGPT Assistant – Smart Search
- Keyboard History Recorder
As you may have noticed, the list also includes an extension from the aforementioned company Cyberhaven – one of its employees became the target of a phishing attack at Christmas, and it was their extension that was attacked, into which malicious code got into.
Do you trust different web browser extensions?
Source: Freepik, Cyberhaven, ArsTechnica, The Hacker News
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