Is PhishWall safe?
PhishWall reports every tab URL to a local desktop agent and injects a persistent identifier into requests to Japanese banking sites.
On each tab load, switch, or close, the extension sends the current page URL and tab details to a PhishWall agent running at 127.0.0.1:8888. At startup it retrieves a persistent GUID from the same local agent and injects it—along with version and client identifiers—as custom headers on all outbound requests to a list of over 40 Japanese banking domains.
Who publishes itphishwall-dev@hitachi-systems.com - no other listings under this identity
phishwall-dev@hitachi-systems.com - no other listings under this identity
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 6.1.44.0. 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
http://*/*
Read and change your data on every secure site you visit
https://*/*
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed PhishWall 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.
- 127.0.0.1:8888 (local PhishWall agent)
PhishWall sends data to 127.0.0.1:8888 (local PhishWall agent). Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.