A cluster of 31 Russian-language Chrome extensions, marketed as “VPN for X” tools, has been discovered using a shared codebase to redirect browser traffic through remotely controlled proxy infrastructure. This ongoing campaign, revealed on September 19, 2026, has affected about 356,000 users, effectively turning their installed browsers into nodes in a residential proxy network. Researchers […]

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