Your web browser is an ecosystem of its own. It stores your passwords, search history, financial details like credit card numbers, addresses and more. Just like how ...

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 ...

A set of 57 Chrome extensions with 6,000,000 users have been discovered with very risky capabilities, such as monitoring browsing behavior, accessing cookies for domains, and potentially executing ...

A phishing attack that put malicious code in the Cyberhaven data protection extension appears to be part of a broader campaign. A phishing attack that put malicious code in the Cyberhaven data ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are under attack. The latest ...

This Google Chrome browser extension attack compromised authentication cookies. Update, Dec. 31, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 29 now includes an explanation of how 2FA bypass session ...

As many of us celebrated the year-end holidays, a small group of researchers worked overtime tracking a startling discovery: At least 33 browser extensions hosted in Google’s Chrome Web Store, some ...

Google is hosting dozens of extensions in its Chrome Web Store that perform suspicious actions on the more than 4 million devices that have installed them and that their developers have taken pains to ...

The Chrome Web Store has been infested with dozens of malicious browser extensions claiming to provide AI assistant functionality but that secretly are siphoning off personal information from victims.

How can an extension change hands with no oversight?

Google Chrome is the most widely used browser around, and that's largely thanks to its customizability. By adding the best Chrome extensions, you can surf the web your way, and anonymously by throwing ...