Hundreds of popular add‑ons used encrypted, URL‑sized payloads to send search queries, referrers, and timestamps to outside servers, in some cases tied to data brokers and unknown operators.

Security experts have uncovered a number of dangerous extensions for the Chrome browser. A total of 30 extensions belonging ...

The Chrome Web Store has been infested with dozens of malicious browser extensions claiming to provide AI assistant functionality but that secretly are siphoning off personal information from victims.

Criminals are pushing surveillance tools into the Google Chrome Web Store ...

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a serious threat hiding inside Google Chrome. Several browser extensions pretend to be helpful tools. In reality, they quietly take over user accounts. These ...

A Google Chrome Web Store campaign uses over 100 malicious browser extensions that mimic legitimate tools, such as VPNs, AI assistants, and crypto utilities, to steal browser cookies and execute ...

Chrome Web Store is again in the spotlight, and not for good reasons once again. Symantec researchers have recently discovered several browser extensions that somehow slipped past Google’s security ...

Are you a good bot or a bad bot? More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be ...

Research shows that even simple Chrome extensions can quietly invade user privacy, with some hijacking clipboards, impersonating trusted tools, and tracking activity without clearly telling users what ...