A massive spyware campaign called "RedDirection" turned 18 popular browser extensions into surveillance tools, exposing over ...

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

Security researchers have discovered 11 malicious Google Chrome extensions that have collectively been downloaded over 1.7 ...

Over 2.3 million Chrome and Edge users were compromised by 18 seemingly legitimate browser extensions that turned into ...

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

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 users’ every movement on the web and shared them with customers of Nacho ...

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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 ...

Extensions and Users at Risk According to Secure Annex, at least 26 Chrome extensions fell victim to this breach, including widely used ones like AI Assistant-ChatGPT and Gemini for Chrome.

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.