These programs can steal your Facebook password in seconds

Google Chrome extensions are often a useful part of the browser, but you should be careful, because sometimes malicious extensions are added to the Chrome Web Store. It is now clear how much trouble these programs can cause, writes A Gax.

According to a study conducted by specialists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 12.5 percent of the extensions in the Chrome Web Store – 17,300 programs – have a license that allows their creators to extract sensitive data from visited websites.

Affected websites include Gmail and Facebook.

The study also explained how Chrome extensions can obtain passwords. the hvg They only need one permission to read all the data, and they can actually access login data by exploiting a website bug.

The other way is that the extension has access to the cookies and can modify them. This is dangerous because cookies are often used to store passwords, so that individual login information can be decrypted from them.

In order to avoid such unpleasant situations, it is worth installing extensions only from a trusted developer. Before installation, it is also important to check what each add-on requires access to. If it asks for permission to read all the data, let’s think about whether we really need the extension.