Chrome extensions disguised as AI assistants infected over 300,000 users with malware that steals emails, passwords and ...

A set of 30 malicious Chrome extensions that have been installed by more than 300,000 users are masquerading as AI assistants to steal credentials, email content, and browsing information. Some of the ...

Security experts have uncovered dangerous Chrome extensions that promise or impersonate AI tools to steal sensitive data.

Hundreds of popular add‑ons used encrypted, URL‑sized payloads to send search queries, referrers, and timestamps to outside servers, in some cases tied to data brokers and unknown operators.

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

Browser extensions are tracking more of your data. Many AI productivity tools are collecting tons of personal information. Users should be wary of unjustifiable permissions requests. Browser ...

Despite ongoing efforts by Google to tighten security, malicious browser extensions continue to find their way onto the Chrome Web Store — and into users’ ...

2026 research by Incogni found that a lot of Google Chrome’s extensions collect user data. The most intrusive types are programming and writing assistants. Grammarly and Quillbot are very risky tools ...

More than 300,000 Chrome users have installed what looked like helpful AI add-ons that were actually data-stealing extensions ...

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