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 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 ...

Suppose you want to block ads or find a deal on a product; thus a browser extension could come in handy. Just a simple download from the browser’s extension store, and you are ready to rock holiday ...

Just like malicious apps on your smartphone, malicious browser extensions can put your devices and the sensitive data stored in your browser at serious risk. The problem with malicious browser ...

The offending extensions do not deploy traditional malware or attempt to exploit flaws in ChatGPT itself. Instead, they hook ...

Malicious Chrome extensions steal login data by impersonating Workday, NetSuite and SAP SuccessFactors platforms, cybersecurity researchers say.

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 ...

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 ...

Approximately 8-percent of Chrome users have reportedly installed one of nearly 300 adware extensions found in the browser’s dedicated Web Store. That’s based on reports surrounding AdGuard’s ...

In brief: Just how bad is the problem of malicious extensions on the Chrome Web Store? That depends on who you believe. Google, for its part, says less than 1% of all installs include malware. But a ...