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Hundreds of fake Chrome VPN extensions route traffic through a proxy
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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More than 737 Chrome extensions were found on the Web Store that pretended to be popular VPN and proxy services. The fake extensions routed users’ traffic through SOCKS5 proxies run by a single provider.
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