Browser extensions let you customize and add new features to Google Chrome but these 35 unlisted ones require sensitive permissions that could put your privacy at risk.

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

A massive spyware campaign called "RedDirection" turned 18 popular browser extensions into surveillance tools, exposing over 2.3 million users-check your Chrome and Edge extensions now.

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

Maintain peak performance and privacy by cleaning out browser extensions that quietly use your PC resources for web scraping ...

Everyone who uses Chrome has at least one Chrome extension installed, even if it's just an adblocker. But few realize that many of these nifty little tools can also pose a major security risk ...

Security researchers have discovered 11 malicious Google Chrome extensions that have collectively been downloaded over 1.7 million times. These extensions, available on the Chrome Web Store, are ...

Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says hackers are embedding dangerous code in Chrome extensions to steal your data. Hacked Chrome extensions put 2.6 million users at risk of data leak Skip ...

Chrome is also getting a new scanning feature for suspicious-looking downloads. In the future, any downloads that seem “risky, but not clearly unsafe” will offer an option to upload them to ...

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Extensions for Google Chrome, those small add-ons that make the popular browser more functional, are actually quite a big security risk, new research has found. Earlier this week, data protection ...

Google’s previous extension framework, Manifest Version 2 (MV2), was notoriously problematic. It often granted excessive permissions to extensions and allowed scripts to be injected without user ...