Malicious Perplexity Chrome Extension Intercepted Searches and Address Bar Input
Microsoft has found a malicious Chrome extension that posed as the AI search engine Perplexity and quietly logged what people searched for. It routed every query and every character typed into the address bar through an attacker-controll…
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