{"id":6494,"date":"2025-12-23T16:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/two-chrome-extensions-caught-secretly-stealing-credentials-from-over-170-sites\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:14:58","slug":"two-chrome-extensions-caught-secretly-stealing-credentials-from-over-170-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/two-chrome-extensions-caught-secretly-stealing-credentials-from-over-170-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Chrome Extensions Caught Secretly Stealing Credentials from Over 170 Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Google Chrome extensions with the same name and published by the same developer that come with capabilities to intercept traffic and capture user credentials.<br \/>\nThe extensions are advertised as a &#8220;multi-location network speed test plug-in&#8221; for developers and foreign trade personnel. Both the browser add-ons are available for download as of\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Google Chrome extensions with the same name and published by the same developer that come with capabilities to intercept traffic and capture user credentials.<br \/>\nThe extensions are advertised as a &#8220;multi-location network speed test plug-in&#8221; for developers and foreign trade personnel. Both the browser add-ons are available for download as of\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Google Chrome extensions with the same name and published by the same developer that come with capabilities to intercept traffic and capture user credentials. The extensions are advertised as a &#8220;multi-location network speed test plug-in&#8221; for developers and foreign trade personnel. Both the browser add-ons are available for download&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/two-chrome-extensions-caught-secretly-stealing-credentials-from-over-170-sites\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Chrome Extensions Caught Secretly Stealing Credentials from Over 170 Sites<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6495,"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\/6494"}],"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=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}