A massive spyware campaign called "RedDirection" turned 18 popular browser extensions into surveillance tools, exposing over ...

Chrome extensions with 1.4M installs covertly ... The code modified the cookies for the site so that the extension authors receive affiliate payment for ... Ars is the trusted source in a sea of ...

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.

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a proof-of-concept Chrome extension that is capable of stealing plaintext passwords from the HTML source codes of virtually any ...

The specific extension names and extension code IDs are listed below. Source: McAfee The best way to avoid being affected is to be cautious when installing Chrome extensions.

Tuckner’s discovery is reminiscent of a 2019 analysis that found browser extensions installed on 4 million browsers collected ...

Google has the source code for the browser extension on Github for those that want to check it out. The Suspicious Site Reporter is a small 920 KiB download and is currently in version 1.13 (last ...

Researchers scanned the entirety of the Chrome Web Store and analyzed the source code and Web Store listings of 120,463 Chrome extensions and apps.

The authors of SafeBrowse, a Chrome extension with more than 140,000 users, have embedded a JavaScript library in the extension's code that mines for the Monero cryptocurrency using users ...

You'll be told how many extensions Google removed from the store and have the option to review more details. The new feature will be available in Chrome 117, which is set to come out in early ...

Google is adding a new feature to Chrome 117 that will proactively alert you when an extension isn’t in the Chrome Web Store. The company is also going to automatically upgrade URLs with HTTP to ...