Opera GX Flaw Let Malicious Sites Auto-Install Mods to Steal Data From Visited Pages

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  • Veroeffentlicht: 2026-07-06 07:27 UTC
  • Importiert: 2026-07-10 14:05 UTC
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Researchers found a flaw in Opera GX, the gaming-focused version of the Opera browser, that let a malicious website silently install a browser add-on and use it to lift specific data from the pages a victim visits.

In a proof of concept, they reconstructed a signed-in user's full Gmail address from a single visit, with no click. Opera has patched the flaw and says it found no evidence that

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