Your trusted extension/add-on with over 100k review might be spying on you.

After trimming down my extensions to preserve my privacy, these are the ones that remain important for my daily usage.

Many modern attacks happen entirely inside the browser, leaving little evidence for traditional security tools. Keep Aware shows why EDR, email, and SASE miss browser-only attacks and how visibility ...

Cybersecurity firm LayerX uncovers 17 malicious extensions that can enable click fraud, user tracking, and more. The most popular extension was downloaded more than 500K times.

More and more of the work that most of us do on a regular basis takes place in a web browser. In fact, many people can spend an entire day on their computer using only one application–Chrome. That’s ...

Popular file-sharing site Mega.nz is warning users that cybercriminals hacked its browser extension for Google Chrome so that usernames and passwords submitted through the browser were copied and ...

In today's digital age, where cyber threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, protecting your digital assets has never been more crucial. Whether you are a cryptocurrency enthusiast or a ...

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

A recent leak of private Facebook messages, primarily in Europe, should remind consumers to be cautious when downloading and using web browser extensions, security experts say. That’s because Facebook ...

When Amazon offered recently to pay Prime members $10 to download its Assistant browser extension, Jeremy Tillman, who runs the ad-blocking software Ghostery, took notice. He likened it to that ...

A recent security demonstration has revealed a sophisticated cyberattack targeting browser extensions known as “polymorphic extensions.” These malicious tools exploit the permissions granted to ...

Researchers show how rogue web applications can be used to attack vulnerable browser extensions in a hack that gives adversaries access to private user data. Researchers have added another reason to ...