Another wave of malicious browser extensions capable of tracking user activity have been found across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Some of them may have been active for up to five years.

Google today began blocking local Chrome extensions to protect Windows users. This means that as of today, extensions can be installed in Chrome for Windows only if they’re hosted on the Chrome Web ...

Security-focused web developer z0ccc has created a web application that shows how other websites track users’ Internet activity via their installed Chrome extensions. “Extension Fingerprints” detects ...

Google is testing a new feature in the Chrome browser that will warn users when an installed extension has been removed from the Chrome Web Store, usually indicative of it being malware. An unending ...

A researcher has created a website that uses your installed Google Chrome extensions to generate a fingerprint of your device that can be used to track you online. It is then possible to track a ...

Google is cracking down again on deceptive Chrome extension installation practices. The browser maker listed new rules yesterday that extension developers must follow, or face the possibility of ...

A lot of what we do on our computers goes through the browser, and that means any extensions you choose to add on top of that browser have a very privileged position: They can see where you’re going ...

Starting with version 25 of Google Chrome, browser extensions installed offline by other applications will not be enabled until users give their permission through a dialog box in the browser ...

A set of malicious Google Chrome extensions designed to monitor browsing activity have been installed on more than 1.4 million devices, researchers have reported. As described in a blog post from ...

More than three million internet users are believed to have installed 15 Chrome, and 13 Edge extensions that contain malicious code, security firm Avast said today. But despite the presence of code to ...