Stylish: The extension that steals information in Chrome and Firefox | news

The American Computer Engineer Robert Heaton warned this Friday about an application that could fly information ] users browsers Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox .

Heaton indicates that the " Stylish " extension uses cookies that are used in the network when searching for a link to the aforementioned search engines.

This way, the extension captures the entirety of the person's search history and the Records on its servers, so that the company that created this application, SimilarWeb, gets all the personal information of each user.

This application had the original function of changing the appearance of web pages, that is to say that it allowed the user to customize a portal to his liking by installing themes and skins.

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The application has already been removed from the Chrome App Store and Firefox, and both companies have made it clear that they are not responsible for the extension activity .

If you have already installed the application on your computer, the first thing to do is remove it from your browser and change the pbadwords of social networks, access to banking users, emails, among others.

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