A massive spyware campaign called "RedDirection" turned 18 popular browser extensions into surveillance tools, exposing over 2.3 million users-check your Chrome and Edge extensions now.

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

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.

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

Maintain peak performance and privacy by cleaning out browser extensions that quietly use your PC resources for web scraping ...

The discovery of over 35 compromised Chrome extensions, putting 2.6 million users at risk, is a wake-up call for everyone. Removing suspicious extensions is an essential step to protect your data.

Experis Cyber revealed that dozens of well-known and Google-verified extensions turned into spying tools, including among ...

Most of these issues arose because the Chrome extension standard, Manifest Version 2 (MV2), was riddled with loopholes that granted extensions excessive permissions, and allowed scripts to be ...

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SquareX, an industry-first Browser Detection and Response (BDR) solution, leads the way in browser security. About a week ago, SquareX reported large-scale attacks targeting Chrome Extension ...

For other extensions at risk of being disabled, you’ll need to find an MV3 alternative for those as well. If they don’t have a warning message on the Chrome Web Store page, they should be fine.

At DEF CON 32, the SquareX research team delivered a hard-hitting presentation titled Sneaky Extensions: The MV3 Escape Artists where they shared their findings on how malicious browser extensions are ...