CursedChrome turns your browser into a hacker's proxy

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Last week, a security researcher published a proof-of-concept Chrome extension that turns Chrome browsers into proxy bots, allowing hackers to navigate the web using an infected user's identity.

The tool, named CursedChrome, was created by security researcher Matthew Bryant, and released on GitHub as an open-source project.

Under the hood, CursedChrome has two different parts -- a client-side component (the Chrome extension itself) and a server-side counterpart (a control panel where all CursedChrome bots report).
 

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