{"id":3685,"date":"2025-03-10T16:12:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/researchers-expose-new-polymorphic-attack-that-clones-browser-extensions-to-steal-credentials\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T16:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:12:35","slug":"researchers-expose-new-polymorphic-attack-that-clones-browser-extensions-to-steal-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/researchers-expose-new-polymorphic-attack-that-clones-browser-extensions-to-steal-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Expose New Polymorphic Attack That Clones Browser Extensions to Steal Credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a novel technique that allows a malicious web browser extension to impersonate any installed add-on.<br \/>\n&#8220;The polymorphic extensions create a pixel perfect replica of the target&#8217;s icon, HTML popup, workflows and even temporarily disables the legitimate extension, making it extremely convincing for victims to believe that they are providing credentials to\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a novel technique that allows a malicious web browser extension to impersonate any installed add-on.<br \/>\n&#8220;The polymorphic extensions create a pixel perfect replica of the target&#8217;s icon, HTML popup, workflows and even temporarily disables the legitimate extension, making it extremely convincing for victims to believe that they are providing credentials to\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a novel technique that allows a malicious web browser extension to impersonate any installed add-on. &#8220;The polymorphic extensions create a pixel perfect replica of the target&#8217;s icon, HTML popup, workflows and even temporarily disables the legitimate extension, making it extremely convincing for victims to believe that they are providing credentials to\u00a0Cybersecurity&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/researchers-expose-new-polymorphic-attack-that-clones-browser-extensions-to-steal-credentials\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Researchers Expose New Polymorphic Attack That Clones Browser Extensions to Steal Credentials<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}