With an abundance of AI tools now widely available, it is no surprise that hackers and scammers are hijacking these popular brand names to distribute malicious software.
Time and again, popular AI chatbots have been used as bait for rogue Google Chrome extensions designed to covertly steal user data and tracking history. Big names like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek have all seen their branding illegally cloned by Chrome browser extensions. To the untrained eye, these tools look entirely legitimate, but underneath, they are harmful data-harvesting programs used by cybercriminals to extract sensitive information.
