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Credential-stealing Chrome extensions target enterprise HR platforms

ID: b78bdc98-4805-5422-a7dd-ca0144e2e49b

STIX ID: report--b78bdc98-4805-5422-a7dd-ca0144e2e49b

Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2026-01-17

Date Updated: 2026-04-20

Author: Lawrence Abrams

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Researchers discovered five malicious Chrome extensions on the Chrome Web Store posing as productivity/security tools for Workday, NetSuite, and SuccessFactors that stole authentication cookies (notably "__session"), blocked security/administration pages to hinder incident response, and supported bidirectional cookie injection for immediate session takeover; the extensions shared infrastructure and code patterns, had ~2,300 installs, and were reported to Google and removed.

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