More than three million Google Chrome users have been issued a warning about 16 browser extensions that have been compromised by hackers. Cybersecurity experts are now urging users to delete them ...

Chrome Web Store under assault by malicious extension devs The addition of these popups are part of Google's plan to fight malicious Chrome extensions that have been starting to plague the Web ...

Security researchers have uncovered dozens of malicious Chrome and Edge extensions secretly tracking users’ online activity and sending it to remote servers. Google has removed them from its store, ...

Google has started warning Chrome users about using ad blockers. The popular web browser isn’t threatening users to switch off or uninstall these extensions. However, a major change would make ...

Anyone who uses Chrome to surf the web must be on high alert and check they haven't downloaded and rogue browser extensions.

Google is testing a new feature in the Chrome browser that will warn users when an installed extension has been removed from the Chrome Web Store, usually indicative of it being malware.

Yanking an extension from the store usually means Google has discovered it contains malware or is otherwise harmful, so getting a warning this way could prompt you to remove it from your computer ...

Google is adding a new feature to Chrome 117 that will proactively alert you when an extension isn’t in the Chrome Web Store. The company is also going to automatically upgrade URLs with HTTP to ...

The hackers have been weaponising extensions in this way since at least July 2024. The Chrome extension warning comes after Gmail users were told to be vigilant after a new scam saw hackers using ...

Mark Hachman / IDG Google’s warning, in yellow, appears at the top of the page. Our understanding is that Google chose to add the message to its Chrome Web Store for security’s sake.