supply chain · Wed 12 Aug 2026 · 18:54 UTC
Hundreds of fake Chrome VPN extensions route traffic through a proxy
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More than 737 browser extensions published on the Chrome Web Store impersonated well-known VPN and proxy services while routing users' traffic through SOCKS5 proxies operated by a single provider.
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