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This extension was removed from the Chrome Web Store as malware. Do not install it.Extension: Genus VPN

CRITICAL RISKRemoved from Chrome Web Store

Genus VPN

ID: eppgidbggdfgehmelanfgakiaamjfokg

Could be malicious

Supported Languages

🇧🇩Bengali

🇧🇷Brazilian Portuguese

🇬🇧British English

🇧🇬Bulgarian

🇪🇸Catalan

🇨🇳Chinese (Simplified)

🇹🇼Chinese (Traditional)

🇭🇷Croatian

🇨🇿Czech

🇩🇰Danish

🇳🇱Dutch

🇺🇸English

🇪🇪Estonian

🇵🇭Filipino

🇫🇮Finnish

🇫🇷French

🇩🇪German

🇬🇷Greek

🇮🇳Gujarati

🇮🇳Hindi

🇭🇺Hungarian

🇮🇩Indonesian

🇮🇹Italian

🇯🇵Japanese

🇰🇷Korean

🇲🇽Latin American Spanish

🇱🇻Latvian

🇱🇹Lithuanian

🇲🇾Malay

🇮🇳Malayalam

🇮🇳Marathi

🇳🇴Norwegian

🇵🇱Polish

🇵🇹Portuguese

🇷🇴Romanian

🇷🇺Russian

🇷🇸Serbian

🇸🇰Slovak

🇸🇮Slovenian

🇪🇸Spanish

🇸🇪Swedish

🇮🇳Tamil

🇮🇳Telugu

🇹🇭Thai

🇹🇷Turkish

🇺🇦Ukrainian

🇺🇸US English

🇻🇳Vietnamese

Extension Info & Metadata

Status

Removed

Version

0.8.2

Size

0.49 MB

Rating

4.1/5

Reviews

Users

200,000

Type

Extension

Updated

Sep 12, 2021

Publisher Contextual Analysis

Author: Olivia DeschampView Profile
MX records exist: Yes
Domain exists: Yes
Is disposable: No
Is role-based: No
Mailbox exists: Yes

Total Extensions

Active

Obsolete

Listed

Unlisted

Total Users

200,000

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Reliable free VPN extension. Unblock web sites and change your IP adresss Unlimited and free VPN

Genus VPN is a free VPN. You can unblock websites that are not accessible from your country \ IP address. == Features == ✨ Free and unlimited VPN ✨ Select country from the list ✨ See your IP address If some country doesn’t work, choose another one!

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By severity

Critical1

High2

Medium5

Low1

Versions scanned

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Extension Version	Code Review Findings
0.8.2 Code review	4
0.8.1 Code review	5

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
0.8.2	4
0.8.1	5

Files with findings

2 distinct paths — top paths by unique finding count:

js/background.js7
manifest.json2

S.No.	Category	Severity	File	Summary	Found in Version
1	Network Interception	critical	js/background.js (line 1)	The extension fetches proxy server credentials dynamically from a remote API endpoint (api.nucleusvpn.com) and applies them to route all browser traffic through third-party proxy servers using scope:'regular'. Critica…	0.8.1
2	Code Injection	high	js/background.js (line 1)	On every tab creation and every tab update event, the extension executes a dynamically constructed JavaScript code string in the tab's page context via browser.tabs.executeScript. The injected code calls insertAdjacen…	0.8.1
3	Tracking	high	js/background.js (line 1)	The extension silently generates and persistently stores a UUID-v4 client ID ('cid') in chrome.storage, then POSTs a Google Analytics 'pageview' beacon to google-analytics.com/collect including the cid, the tracking I…	0.8.1
4	Privilege Escalation	medium	manifest.json (line 18)	The manifest requests blanket access to all HTTP/HTTPS pages, injects into all frames including `about:blank`, and does so at `document_start`. Given that `js/content.js` is effectively empty, this broad early page pr…	0.8.2
5	Remote Code Loading	medium	js/background.js (line 3382)	The background page is configured to pull localization content remotely from `https://onlinesly.com` instead of relying solely on packaged extension resources. Remote content delivered into a privileged extension cont…	0.8.2
6	Tracking	medium	js/background.js (line 3299)	The extension generates and persists a unique UUID (`cid`) in local storage, then transmits it to Google Analytics as a pageview from the privileged background page. This creates durable per-install tracking that is n…	0.8.2
7	Unauthorized Data Collection	medium	js/background.js (line 1)	The extension repeatedly queries https://ifconfig.me/ip — a third-party IP-lookup service — both to verify proxy connectivity and to display the user's current IP. Every such request exposes the user's real or proxied…	0.8.1
8	Unauthorized Data Collection	medium	manifest.json (line 1)	The manifest declares a content script that runs on every HTTP and HTTPS URL at document_start (the earliest possible moment, before any page content loads), injected into all frames including about:blank frames. Whil…	0.8.1
9	Code Injection	low	js/background.js (line 3357)	The background script dynamically injects JavaScript into arbitrary tabs and modifies page DOM by inserting extension HTML before the document body. The injected payload is simple, but using `executeScript` across nor…	0.8.2

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URLs

IPv4

IPv6

URLs

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getbootstrap.com	-	https://getbootstrap.com/
github.com	/twbs/bootstrap/blob/main/LICENSE	https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/main/LICENSE
www.w3.org	/2000/svg	http://www.w3.org/2000/svg
registry.npmjs.org	/axios/-/axios-0.21.4.tgz	https://registry.npmjs.org/axios/-/axios-0.21.4.tgz
github.com	/axios/axios/issues	https://github.com/axios/axios/issues
axios-http.com	-	https://axios-http.com
github.com	/axios/axios.git	https://github.com/axios/axios.git
github.com	/uuidjs/uuid	https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid#getrandomvalues-not-supported
developer.mozilla.org	/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/runtime/onMessage	https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/runtime/onMessage
www.google-analytics.com	/collect	https://www.google-analytics.com/collect?${new

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14.1.1.9	IPv4	-

3.2 out of 5 · 10 most recent reviews

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Negative

way too slow

Kotisnotacat·2 Oct 2021

No works

БМ

Бацька Мінскі·2 Oct 2021

Nice apps ohoho

Hanif Ahmad Fauzi·27 Sept 2021

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Genus VPN

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Code Review Findings Summary Across 2 Versions9

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