Well, that wasn't fun. Last week, Ars Technica ran a report about 33 Chrome extensions that have been found to have malware. And yeah, yesterday I found that I had one of them installed.

Many of the malicious extensions are riding the coattails of well-known brands such as Fortinet, YouTube, Deepseek AI, and ...

Several popular Chrome extensions send sensitive user data over unencrypted HTTP, exposing millions to interception and ...

The malicious extension, available as version 24.10.4, was available for 31 hours, from December 25 at 1:32 AM UTC to Dec 26 at 2:50 AM UTC. Chrome browsers actively running Cyberhaven during that ...

A newly devised "polymorphic" attack allows malicious Chrome extensions to morph into other browser extensions, including password managers, crypto wallets, and banking apps, to steal sensitive ...

Google has removed from the Chrome Web Store 32 malicious extensions that could alter search results and push spam or unwanted ads. Collectively, they come with a download count of 75 million.

The company has just removed 32 malicious extensions from the Chrome Web Store that appear to have been installed a combined 75 million times. As is often the way in these cases, the extensions ...

While cyberattacks often exploit zero-day flaws in Google’s browser, there’s an easier way to target Chrome users: malicious extensions. Just like with malicious apps, these bad extensions can ...

Researchers find malicious browser extensions can assume the appearance of any other installed in the browser It can also ...

and the Chrome store has a review process that helps to ensure they're safe. However, as with all things on the internet, malicious extensions can slip through the cracks from time to time ...

Secure Annex cybersecurity researcher John Tuckner has identified 57 malicious Chrome extensions that can be used to track your activities or run malware. Although most of the extensions in ...