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The January 2026 Incident
In January 2026, security researchers discovered two malicious Chrome extensions that had compromised 900,000+ users.
The extensions' names were deliberately chosen to appear as legitimate AI enhancement tools:
- "Chat GPT for Chrome with GPT-5, Claude Sonnet & DeepSeek AI" — 600,000+ users
- "AI Sidebar with Deepseek, ChatGPT, Claude and more" — 300,000+ users
Both extensions were doing the same thing: **exfiltrating complete ChatGPT and DeepSeek con...