Browser extensions can be just as dangerous as regular apps, and their integration with the tool everyone’s constantly using can make them seem erroneously innocuous. Case in point: a collection of ...

Researchers have discovered malicious extensions on Chrome Web Store with 1.7M downloads, capable of tracking users and redirecting them to unsafe destinations.

These unsafe extensions know your browsing activity, too.

Upgraded to flag untrusted Chrome extensions. Starting with Google Chrome 91, ... "After a short wait, if Safe Browsing determines the file is unsafe, Chrome will display a warning.

Chrome is also getting a new scanning feature for suspicious-looking downloads. In the future, any downloads that seem “risky, but not clearly unsafe” will offer an option to upload them to ...

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

Researchers have uncovered four malicious extensions with more than 500,000 combined downloads from the Google Chrome Web Store, a finding that highlights a key weakness in what's widely ...

A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has uploaded to the Chrome Web Store a proof-of-concept extension that can steal plaintext passwords from a website's source code.

Google has announced that it will be extending its policy that requires Chrome extensions to be hosted on the Chrome Web Store to all Mac users beginning in July 2015. Google says it is extending ...

Google's new Chrome extension can detect unsafe login credentials Google wants to help protect your accounts from hijackers By Shawn Knight February 5, 2019, 14:01.