Researchers say attackers are extending AI-themed social engineering from phishing campaigns to browser extensions.

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 ...

Google is starting to enforce its promise to disable outdated Chrome extensions.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.

A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people's data to servers in China.

If you’re a PC user of a certain age, you probably remember when security focused on apps. What you downloaded and installed was the biggest danger. But even with many services having moved online, ...

Your web browser may feel like a safe place, especially when you install helpful tools that promise to make your life easier. But security researchers have uncovered ...

Update, Jan. 4, 2025: This story, originally published Jan. 2, now includes a link to details of all the known Chrome extensions to have been targeted by the hackers. As I reported at the end of ...

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 ...

A malicious Chromium-based extension that spoofs the AI-powered answer engine Perplexity AI redirects browser search traffic using MV3 APIs and intermediary infrastructure.