{"id":231323,"date":"2026-02-14T05:18:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/malicious-chrome-extensions-caught-stealing-business-data-emails-and-browsing-history"},"modified":"2026-02-14T05:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:18:42","slug":"malicious-chrome-extensions-caught-stealing-business-data-emails-and-browsing-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/malicious-chrome-extensions-caught-stealing-business-data-emails-and-browsing-history","title":{"rendered":"Malicious Chrome Extensions Caught Stealing Business Data, Emails, and Browsing History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/malicious-chrome-extensions-caught-stealing-business-data-emails-and-browsing-history.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Google Chrome extension that\u2019s designed to steal data associated with Meta Business Suite and Facebook Business Manager.<\/p>\n<p>The extension, named CL Suite by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CLMasters\">@CLMasters<\/a> (ID: jkphinfhmfkckkcnifhjiplhfoiefffl), is marketed as a way to scrape Meta Business Suite data, remove verification pop-ups, and generate two-factor authentication (2FA) codes. The extension has 33 users as of writing. It was first uploaded to the Chrome Web Store on March 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>However, the browser add-on also exfiltrates TOTP codes for Facebook and Meta Business accounts, Business Manager contact lists, and analytics data to infrastructure controlled by the threat actor, Socket said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Google Chrome extension that\u2019s designed to steal data associated with Meta Business Suite and Facebook Business Manager. The extension, named CL Suite by @CLMasters (ID: jkphinfhmfkckkcnifhjiplhfoiefffl), is marketed as a way to scrape Meta Business Suite data, remove verification pop-ups, and generate two-factor authentication (2FA) codes. The extension has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231323","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=231323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}