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Amit Assaraf
A web link in the email led to a Google consent screen asking for access consent for an OAuth application named Privacy Plan Expansion. A Cyberhaven developer granted the consent and, at the same time, unwittingly offered the aggressor the ability to post brand-new versions of Cyberhaven’s Chrome expansion to the Chrome Internet Shop. The assaulter after that used the approval to push out the malicious variation 24 10 4
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Amit Assaraf
As word of the assault spread in the very early hours of December 25, developers and scientists uncovered that other extensions were targeted, in many cases effectively, by the very same spear phishing project. John Tuckner, owner of Secure Annex, a web browser expansion analysis and administration company, stated that since Thursday afternoon, he knew of 19 other Chrome extensions that were in a similar way compromised. In every case, the opponent made use of spear phishing to press a new destructive variation and customized, look-alike domains to provide payloads and obtain authentication qualifications. Jointly, the 20 extensions had 1 46 million downloads.
“For lots of I talk to, managing browser extensions can be a lower priority item in their protection program,” Tuckner wrote in an email. “Individuals know they can provide a threat, however hardly ever are teams taking action on them. We’ve often seen in security [that] a couple of cases can trigger a reevaluation of an organization’s protection pose. Occurrences like this typically lead to groups scrambling to find a means to acquire visibility and understanding of effect to their organizations.”
The earliest concession occurred in May 2024 Tuckner provided the adhering to spread sheet:
| Name | ID | Variation | Spot | Offered | Individuals | Start | End |
| VPNCity | nnpnnpemnckcfdebeekibpiijlicmpom | 2.0. 1 | INCORRECT | 10, 000 | 12/ 12/ 24 | 12/ 31/ 24 | |
| Parrot Talks | kkodiihpgodmdankclfibbiphjkfdenh | 1 16 2 | TRUE | 40, 000 | 12/ 25/ 24 | 12/ 31/ 24 | |
| Uvoice | oaikpkmjciadfpddlpjjdapglcihgdle | 1.0. 12 | TRUE | 40, 000 | 12/ 26/ 24 | 12/ 31/ 24 | |
| Internxt VPN | dpggmcodlahmljkhlmpgpdcffdaoccni | 1 1 1 | 1 2.0 | TRUE | 10, 000 | 12/ 25/ 24 | 12/ 29/ 24 |
| Book Mark Favicon Changer | acmfnomgphggonodopogfbmkneepfgnh | 4 00 | REAL | 40, 000 | 12/ 25/ 24 | 12/ 31/ 24 | |
| Castorus | mnhffkhmpnefgklngfmlndmkimimbphc | 4 40 | 4 41 | TRUE | 50, 000 | 12/ 26/ 24 | 12/ 27/ 24 |
| Wayin AI | cedgndijpacnfbdggppddacngjfdkaca | 0.0. 11 | REAL | 40, 000 | 12/ 19/ 24 | 12/ 31/ 24 | |
| Search Copilot AI Aide for Chrome | bbdnohkpnbkdkmnkddobeafboooinpla | 1.0. 1 | TRUE | 20, 000 | 7/ 17/ 24 | 12/ 31/ 24 | |
| VidHelper – Video Downloader | egmennebgadmncfjafcemlecimkepcle | 2 2 7 | TRUE | 20, 000 | 12/ 26/ 24 | 12/ 31/ 24 | |
| AI Aide – ChatGPT and Gemini for Chrome | bibjgkidgpfbblifamdlkdlhgihmfohh | 0. 1 3 | FALSE | 4, 000 | 5/ 31/ 24 | 10/ 25/ 24 | |
| TinaMind – The GPT- 4 o-powered AI Assistant! | befflofjcniongenjmbkgkoljhgliihe | 2 13.0 | 2 14.0 | REAL | 40, 000 | 12/ 15/ 24 | 12/ 20/ 24 |
| Bard AI conversation | pkgciiiancapdlpcbppfkmeaieppikkk | 1 3 7 | FALSE | 100, 000 | 9/ 5/ 24 | 10/ 22/ 24 | |
| Viewers Setting | llimhhconnjiflfimocjggfjdlmlhblm | 1 5 7 | INCORRECT | 300, 000 | 12/ 18/ 24 | 12/ 19/ 24 | |
| Primus (prev. PADO) | oeiomhmbaapihbilkfkhmlajkeegnjhe | 3 18.0 | 3 20.0 | TRUE | 40, 000 | 12/ 18/ 24 | 12/ 25/ 24 |
| Cyberhaven security extension V 3 | pajkjnmeojmbapicmbpliphjmcekeaac | 24 10 4 | 24 10 5 | REAL | 400, 000 | 12/ 24/ 24 | 12/ 26/ 24 |
| GraphQL Network Inspector | ndlbedplllcgconngcnfmkadhokfaaln | 2 22 6 | 2 22 7 | TRUE | 80, 000 | 12/ 29/ 24 | 12/ 30/ 24 |
| GPT 4 Recap with OpenAI | epdjhgbipjpbbhoccdeipghoihibnfja | 1 4 | INCORRECT | 10, 000 | 5/ 31/ 24 | 9/ 29/ 24 | |
| Vidnoz Flex – Video clip recorder & & Video share | cplhlgabfijoiabgkigdafklbhhdkahj | 1.0. 161 | FALSE | 6, 000 | 12/ 25/ 24 | 12/ 29/ 24 | |
| YesCaptcha aide | jiofmdifioeejeilfkpegipdjiopiekl | 1 1 61 | REAL | 200, 000 | 12/ 29/ 24 | 12/ 31/ 24 | |
| Proxy SwitchyOmega (V 3 | hihblcmlaaademjlakdpicchbjnnnkbo | 3.0. 2 | TRUE | 10, 000 | 12/ 30/ 24 | 12/ 31/ 24 |
But wait, there’s more
Among the endangered extensions is called Reader Setting. Additional evaluation showed it had been compromised not simply in the campaign targeting the other 19 extensions but in a different campaign that began no behind April 2023 Tuckner said the source of the compromise seems a code library designers can utilize to monetize their extensions. The code library collects information about each web visit a browser makes. In exchange for integrating the library right into the expansions, programmers receive a commission from the collection designer.