More than three million Google Chrome users have been issued a warning about 16 browser extensions that have been compromised by hackers. Cybersecurity experts are now urging users to delete them ...

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

Warnings will help fight onslaught of malicious extensions The first of these warnings is for extensions that take over the user's proxy settings, effectively hijacking the user's Internet connection.

Chrome users are being urged to check they have the latest update installed to keep their Chrome browser safe.

Google is adding a new feature to Chrome 117 that will proactively alert you when an extension isn’t in the Chrome Web Store. The company is also going to automatically upgrade URLs with HTTP to ...

Google is testing a new feature in the Chrome browser that will warn users when an installed extension has been removed from the Chrome Web Store, usually indicative of it being malware.

Google has started warning Chrome users about using ad blockers. The popular web browser isn’t threatening users to switch off or uninstall these extensions. However, a major change would make ...

Anyone who uses Chrome to surf the web must be on high alert and check they haven't downloaded and rogue browser extensions.

There are probably hundreds of thousands of Google Chrome extensions out there, and with so many options to choose from, it can be hard to know whether the plugin you want to install is hiding ...

A Chrome deceptive URL extension... Skip to main content. Toggle main menu ... A new warning built into Chrome 75 will flag deceptive URLs via a fullscreen page that notes when something is wrong.

When attempting to download an extension that’s not trusted, Chrome will show a pop-up warning that you should “proceed with caution.”However, there’s still the option to “continue to ...

Editor’s Note: As of March 10, the warning on the Chrome Web Store page has been removed, and replaced with a message that says: “You can now add extensions from the Chrome Web Store to ...