Your trusted extension/add-on with over 100k review might be spying on you.

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

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.

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.

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a serious threat hiding inside Google Chrome. Several browser extensions pretend to be helpful tools. In reality, they quietly take over user accounts. These ...

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

A new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) called 'Stanley' promises malicious Chrome extensions that can clear Google's review process and publish them to the Chrome Web Store. Researchers at end-to-end data ...

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