Impersonating a legitimate extension from AITOPIA, the two malicious extensions were also exfiltrating users’ browser activity. The applications, called ‘Chat GPT for Chrome with GPT-5, Claude Sonnet ...

Chrome extensions are supposed to make your browser more useful, but they've quietly become one of the easiest ways for attackers to spy on what you do online. Security researchers recently uncovered ...

While some consumers spend hours researching must-add Google Chrome extensions, most don't consider which ones they need to delete. Following a seven-year cyberhacking campaign that infected roughly 4 ...

A long-running malware campaign quietly evolved over several years and turned trusted Chrome and Edge extensions into spyware. A detailed report from Koi Security reveals that the ShadyPanda operation ...

A hot potato: Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sophisticated malware campaign that infected millions of computers via browser extensions on the Chrome Web Store and Microsoft Edge add-ons ...

The extensions were seen profiling users, reading cookie data to create unique identifiers, and executing payloads with browser API access. A threat actor has published over a hundred malicious ...

The change is currently tested in Edge Canary and affects user consent and control over Chrome Web Store extension installs. Microsoft is known for aggressive Edge promotion inside Windows and Bing.

This flake provides Nix expressions for the latest pre-release and release versions of the majority of available extensions from the VS Code Marketplace and the Open VSX Registry. A GitHub Action ...

Microsoft is planning to introduce a new Edge security feature that will protect users against malicious extensions sideloaded into the web browser. Edge enables developers to install extensions ...

In late December 2024, researchers discovered more than 30 browser extensions hosted on the Google Chrome Web Store that were thought to be malicious. Of the 30+ extensions, 20 stole credentials and ...