More than 300 Chrome extensions were found to be leaking browser data, spying on users, or stealing user information.
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Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers
Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher says They know where you've been and they're going ...
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Fake Chrome AI extensions targeted over 300,000 users to steal emails, personal data and more
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 ...
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Is Chrome Spying on You?
The Alphabet-owned browser joins a growing cohort of companies—including Nike, Louis Vuitton, and Grubhub—that have been ...
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Over 260,000 Chrome users hit by 30 fake AI extensions stealing browsing & email data
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.
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 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.
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