December 8, 2025 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Malicious extensions do occasionally find their way into the Chrome Web Store (and similar libraries in other ...

Every day, millions of people install tiny browser add-ons they believe will improve productivity or entertainment. With so many options available on the Chrome Web Store, users often rely on trust ...

Browser extensions are well known productivity enhancers that make our web browsing experience more personalized. In recent years, they’ve also served as business workflow streamliners. However, a new ...

While browser extensions add useful functionality to Web browsers, such as blocking ads, managing passwords, and taking notes, they also increase the organization's security and privacy risks. Browser ...

Malicious Chrome and Edge extensions collected browsing history, keystrokes and personal data from millions of users before ...

What would we do without the web browser? For most of us, it’s our gateway to the digital world. But browsers are such a familiar tool today that we’re in danger of giving them a free ride. In fact, ...

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The ...

The recent attack campaign targeting browser extensions shows that malicious browser extensions are the next frontier for identity attacks. More than 2.6 million users across thousands of ...

A long-running malware operation known as "ShadyPanda" has amassed over 4.3 million installations of seemingly legitimate Chrome and Edge browser extensions that evolved into malware. The operation, ...

Browser extensions are a modern fact of online life. And with good reason – they can help to streamline our everyday computing headaches, enhance the browsing experience (thank you, Ad Blocker), and ...