{"id":207987,"date":"2025-03-07T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/malicious-chrome-extensions-can-spoof-password-managers-in-new-attack"},"modified":"2025-03-07T06:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:30:09","slug":"malicious-chrome-extensions-can-spoof-password-managers-in-new-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/malicious-chrome-extensions-can-spoof-password-managers-in-new-attack","title":{"rendered":"Malicious Chrome extensions can spoof password managers in new attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I5PIfA3JHTY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A newly devised \u201cpolymorphic\u201d attack allows malicious Chrome extensions to morph into other browser extensions, including password managers, crypto wallets, and banking apps, to steal sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.sqrx.com\/polymorphic-extensions-dd2310006e04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">devised by SquareX Labs<\/a>, which warns of its practicality and feasibility on the latest version of Chrome. The researchers have responsibly disclosed the attack to Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly devised \u201cpolymorphic\u201d attack allows malicious Chrome extensions to morph into other browser extensions, including password managers, crypto wallets, and banking apps, to steal sensitive information. The attack was devised by SquareX Labs, which warns of its practicality and feasibility on the latest version of Chrome. The researchers have responsibly disclosed the attack to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}