As reported by The Hacker News, a dangerous new campaign targeting browser extensions has been spotted online.So far, at least 16 extensions have been compromised, with over 600,000 Chrome users ...

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 ...

Attackers have started to exploit the very signals that users assume will keep them safe when it comes to add-ons to improve ...

Extensions for Google Chrome, those small add-ons that make the popular browser more functional, are actually quite a big security risk, new research has found. Earlier this week, data protection ...

Browser extensions let you customize and add new features to Google Chrome but these 35 unlisted ones require sensitive permissions that could put your privacy at risk.

Millions of Users At Risk of Accessing Extensions Infected with Malware. The study involved a comprehensive analysis of approximately 125,000 extensions that were available on the Chrome Web Store ...

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

Extensions and Users at Risk According to Secure Annex, at least 26 Chrome extensions fell victim to this breach, including widely used ones like AI Assistant-ChatGPT and Gemini for Chrome.

57 thoughts on “ Browser Extensions: Are They Worth the Risk? The Sunshine State September 5, 2018. I have that MEGA’s Chrome extension, on one of my laptops , but I think it’s a older ...

Google’s previous extension framework, Manifest Version 2 (MV2), was notoriously problematic. It often granted excessive permissions to extensions and allowed scripts to be injected without user ...

Everyone who uses Chrome has at least one Chrome extension installed, even if it's just an adblocker. But few realize that many of these nifty little tools can also pose a major security risk ...

Chrome extensions can enhance your browsing experience, ... Spin.ai estimates that nearly 51% of all browser extensions from Google and Microsoft are high-risk.