Tuesday, July 15, 2025

6480 - Malicious browser extensions


"Millions of people spied on by malicious browser extensions in Chrome and Edge."

Short version of article...

Check your computer to see if you have any of these extensions:

Emoji keyboard online (Chrome)
Free Weather Forecast (Chrome)
Unlock Discord (Chrome)
Dark Theme (Chrome)
Volume Max (Chrome)
Unblock TikTok (Chrome)
Unlock YouTube VPN (Chrome)
Geco colorpick (Chrome)
Weather (Chrome)
Unlock TikTok (Edge)
Volume Booster (Edge)
Web Sound Equalizer (Edge)
Header Value (Edge)
Flash Player (Edge)
Youtube Unblocked (Edge)
SearchGPT (Edge)
Unlock Discord (Edge)


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5 comments:

River said...

I haven't noticed any of these on my laptop.

Bilbo said...

None of these on my Chrome browser.

Anonymous said...

What about Firefox ?

ArcticFox said...

i don't have any of the forementioned extensions installed but thanks for the timely reminder to keep an eye on such things

John A Hill said...

I don't have any of these, but that's good info.
Thanks.