Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a serious threat hiding inside Google Chrome. Several browser extensions pretend to be helpful tools. In reality, they quietly take over user accounts. These ...

Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting users’ complete and extended AI conversations and selling them for marketing purposes, according to data collected from the Google ...

An extension I used almost every day was bought by a new owner and loaded up with spyware. It happened in 2024, but Google ...

Google is starting to enforce its promise to disable outdated Chrome extensions. Chrome extensions add new features to the browser and are often used for facilities such as ad blockers, password ...

Google's Chrome Web Store is now warning that the uBlock Origin ad blocker and other extensions may soon be blocked as part of the company's deprecation of the Manifest V2 extension specification.

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Cybercriminals are constantly finding new ways to exploit trusted apps and browser extensions. Since people tend to trust tools that seem legitimate, attackers use them to spread malware or steal ...

Google delisted the image conversion tool earlier this month, but not before it had likely been modifying thousands of users' ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. The recent Chrome browser 2FA bypass attacks involved dozens ...