{"id":215482,"date":"2025-06-06T05:11:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/popular-chrome-extensions-leak-api-keys-user-data-via-http-and-hard-coded-credentials"},"modified":"2025-06-06T05:11:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:11:32","slug":"popular-chrome-extensions-leak-api-keys-user-data-via-http-and-hard-coded-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/popular-chrome-extensions-leak-api-keys-user-data-via-http-and-hard-coded-credentials","title":{"rendered":"Popular Chrome Extensions Leak API Keys, User Data via HTTP and Hard-Coded Credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/popular-chrome-extensions-leak-api-keys-user-data-via-http-and-hard-coded-credentials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have flagged several popular Google Chrome extensions that have been found to transmit data in HTTP and hard-code secrets in their code, exposing users to privacy and security risks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral widely used extensions [\u2026] unintentionally transmit sensitive data over simple HTTP,\u201d Yuanjing Guo, a security researcher in the Symantec\u2019s Security Technology and Response team, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.security.com\/threat-intelligence\/chrome-extension-leaks\">said<\/a>. \u201cBy doing so, they expose browsing domains, machine IDs, operating system details, usage analytics, and even uninstall information, in plaintext.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the network traffic is unencrypted also means that they are susceptible to adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks, allowing malicious actors on the same network such as a public Wi-Fi to intercept and, even worse, modify this data, which could lead to far more serious consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have flagged several popular Google Chrome extensions that have been found to transmit data in HTTP and hard-code secrets in their code, exposing users to privacy and security risks. \u201cSeveral widely used extensions [\u2026] unintentionally transmit sensitive data over simple HTTP,\u201d Yuanjing Guo, a security researcher in the Symantec\u2019s Security Technology and Response [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215482","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=215482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}