Is Security Extension 20.0 for your anti-virus safe?
Security Extension 20.0 intercepts all HTTPS traffic and forwards URLs, headers, and cookies to a local Kaspersky desktop service.
On every HTTPS page, the extension sends the full page URL and all HTTP request and response headers — including Authorization and Cookie headers — to a locally-running Kaspersky proxy at gc.kis.v2.scr.kaspersky-labs.com. It replaces the native WebSocket and XMLHttpRequest constructors so that all network calls from the page are routed through the extension's background service worker before being forwarded to Kaspersky for inspection. A cookie manager plugin also allows the Kaspersky desktop application to read and set cookies for any URL via chrome.cookies.getAll.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 30.390.42.2. 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
See, disable and uninstall your other extensions, including your security ones
management
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Security Extension 20.0 for your anti-virus 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.
- gc.kis.v2.scr.kaspersky-labs.com
Security Extension 20.0 for your anti-virus sends data to gc.kis.v2.scr.kaspersky-labs.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.