Is Hoxx VPN Proxy safe?
Hoxx VPN Proxy sends proxy error URLs and user IDs to its API servers and fetches its server list from unsigned public CDN buckets.
When the VPN proxy fails to resolve hostnames, the extension collects the affected URLs (with the user's account ID) and transmits them in batches every 15 minutes to account1.hoxx.com. The extension also downloads its proxy server list from multiple public CDN and GitHub-hosted mirrors without any integrity verification, meaning a compromise of any mirror could redirect all proxy traffic. A separate routine enumerates other installed browser extensions that hold proxy permission, but that data is kept locally and not transmitted.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.50.8. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
Route all of your browsing through a server of its choosing
proxy
Store data in your browser
storage
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
See, disable and uninstall your other extensions, including your security ones
management
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Hoxx VPN Proxy contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- account1.hoxx.com
Hoxx VPN Proxy sends data to account1.hoxx.com. One other extension we have analyzed sends data here.