{"id":231306,"date":"2026-02-13T21:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/fake-ai-assistants-in-google-chrome-web-store-steal-passwords"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:04:02","slug":"fake-ai-assistants-in-google-chrome-web-store-steal-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/fake-ai-assistants-in-google-chrome-web-store-steal-passwords","title":{"rendered":"Fake AI Assistants in Google Chrome Web Store Steal Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fake-ai-assistants-in-google-chrome-web-store-steal-passwords.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Spy on Emails.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of users have downloaded malicious AI extensions masquerading as ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and others, warn cybersecurity researchers at LayerX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Spy on Emails. Hundreds of thousands of users have downloaded malicious AI extensions masquerading as ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and others, warn cybersecurity researchers at LayerX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231306","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=231306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}