More than 300 Chrome extensions were found to be leaking browser data, spying on users, or stealing user information.

A study by Q Continuum analyzed 32,000 Chrome extensions and found 287 that send sensitive data to developers, affecting about 37 million users. Among the notable extensions are well-known names like ...

The Alphabet-owned browser joins a growing cohort of companies—including Nike, Louis Vuitton, and Grubhub—that have been ...

Criminals are pushing surveillance tools into the Google Chrome Web Store ...

Over 260,000 users installed fake AI Chrome extensions that used iframe injection to steal browser and Gmail data, exposing ...

Are you a good bot or a bad bot? More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be ...

Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher says They know where you've been and they're going to share it. A security researcher has identified 287 Chrome extensions ...

Tens of thousands of people have downloaded what they believed were useful AI tools for their browsers, only to give hackers a direct path into their most private online activity, including emails.

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.

In total, the analysts examined the 32.000 most popular Chrome extensions out of the 240.000 available in the Chrome Webstore. They identified 287, some of them very popular, candidates that ...