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DreClark69
8 months agoNew Contributor
1Password Extension Hijack
I recently watched a video (see link below) where an unassuming Chrome extension could mimic the 1Password extension. It temporarily disabled the extension, changed its appearance to look like 1Passw...
keithm1p
7 months agoNew Contributor
Yup, watched that YT video on this as well. I can't help to think that this is just sneaky enough to fool even experienced users. While I don't think I've seen this before with 1P, new versions of other extensions do sometimes force a clearing of cached credentials, logout, and prompt you enter them again.
I don't use Chromium-based browsers, but many do. We shouldn't be so quick to dismiss as to "Not 1P's problem" though. The browser plug-in ecosystem is where 1P lives --- that's where it's useful, and without that, I probably wouldn't be a subscriber. If there are adjacent risks, or threats within that same system, it would be foolhardy to not at least investigate and remediate. And maybe 1P has already looked into it -- and would be interested as well to hear what's being done.