Is Kaspersky Protection 2021 safe?
Kaspersky Protection 2021 forwards browsing URLs, form credentials, and cookies to the local Kaspersky desktop app via native messaging.
The extension monitors navigation events, XHR request URLs, and tab lifecycle changes, forwarding each event to the Kaspersky native host running on the same machine. On password and login form submissions, it reads field values and sends either an MD5 hash of the password or base64-encoded usernames to the local Kaspersky product. It also relays browser cookie read and write operations for any URL at the request of the local application.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.16.2.3. 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>
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Kaspersky Protection 2021 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.
- com.kaspersky.light_plugin_7571494CE0B94E11BB762B659A4AD71F.kaspersky.com.host
Kaspersky Protection 2021 sends data to com.kaspersky.light_plugin_7571494CE0B94E11BB762B659A4AD71F.kaspersky.com.host. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.