{"id":108112,"date":"2018-09-06T16:12:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T16:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=108112"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:05:02","slug":"google-chrome-wi-fi-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-chrome-wi-fi-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome could be leaving your home Wi-Fi network open to hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The way Google Chrome interacts with your router could be putting your home Wi-Fi network at risk<\/h2>\n

Anybody who has ever asked somebody for a Wi-Fi password will know just how long and crazy they can be. In the interest of securing the network, Wi-Fi passwords are often long and contain both capital and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols.<\/p>\n\n

Using strong passwords is highly recommended, but researchers at cybersecurity consultants SureCloud have found that even networks protected by the strongest passwords could be vulnerable to attack thanks to a weakness in the way Google Chrome and Opera browsers communicate with routers.<\/p>\n

The vulnerability, called Wi-Jacking<\/a>, stems from browsers based on Google\u2019s Chromium open source project, which include Chrome and Opera.<\/strong> Chromium browsers save Wi-Fi router admin credentials and then re-enter them automatically to save time and effort. This credential saving, combined with the fact that most home Wi-Fi networks don\u2019t use encrypted communications for management tasks, enabled the researchers to steal the router login credentials and then capture the Wi-Fi network password.<\/strong><\/p>\n