LayerX Security, the leader in protecting organizations against malicious browser extensions, has integrated its ...

Browser extensions can access the prompts of commercial and internal AIs to snag your sensitive data, says LayerX. But there are ways you can protect yourself.

As reported by The Hacker News, a dangerous new campaign targeting browser extensions has been spotted online. So far, at least 16 extensions have been compromised, with over 600,000 Chrome users ...

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.

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

Tuckner’s discovery is reminiscent of a 2019 analysis that found browser extensions installed on 4 million browsers collected ...

Finally, Incogni sees writing extensions as the riskiest of the bunch, as they’re asking for the most permissions. All of this makes them carry one of the highest average risk impact scores, 3.7/5.

While Chrome extensions are generally safe, whenever you allow a third party to install something on your browser, there's a risk that it'll introduce security vulnerabilities. One of the beauties ...

Chrome is also getting a new scanning feature for suspicious-looking downloads. In the future, any downloads that seem “risky, but not clearly unsafe” will offer an option to upload them to ...

Everyone who uses Chrome has at least one Chrome extension installed, even if it's just an adblocker. But few realize that many of these nifty little tools can also pose a major security risk ...

The company plans to roll it out to everyone “soon.” Google also says that Chrome will soon show a warning when you try to download “high-risk files” while on an insecure connection.