As reported by The Hacker News, a dangerous new campaign targeting browser extensions has been spotted online.So far, at least 16 extensions have been compromised, with over 600,000 Chrome users ...

THOUSANDS of Chrome users are being urged to delete immediately certain apps that pose a security risk. It comes after ...

Attackers have started to exploit the very signals that users assume will keep them safe when it comes to add-ons to improve ...

Security researchers have uncovered dozens of malicious Chrome and Edge extensions secretly tracking users’ online activity ...

Experis Cyber revealed that dozens of well-known and Google-verified extensions turned into spying tools, including among ...

Today, browser extensions are ubiquitous. But as a recent malicious campaign shows, they're also a cybersecurity nightmare.

Tuckner’s discovery is reminiscent of a 2019 analysis that found browser extensions installed on 4 million browsers collected ...

Chrome extensions can be handy little tools that assist us in our day-to-day tasks, but not all extensions enjoy the same ...

This discovery shows just how risky it can be to download any Chrome extensions, no matter how popular they are. Just because hundreds of thousands of people have downloaded the extension doesn ...

For other extensions at risk of being disabled, you’ll need to find an MV3 alternative for those as well. If they don’t have a warning message on the Chrome Web Store page, they should be fine.

After this, a new malicious version of the extension was uploaded, which bypassed Google’s security checks, and was spread to around 400,000 users thanks to automatic extension updates on Chrome.