A “Featured” browser add-on marketed as privacy protection may have been copying AI chats. Koi Security says Urban VPN Proxy ...

Recent exploits are a reminder that when you install an extension, you grant it a lot of power to see where you go online and ...

Anything users typed into ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and Perplexity, would be picked up, as well as anything these tools returned.

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A hot potato: Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sophisticated malware campaign that infected millions of computers via browser extensions on the Chrome Web Store and Microsoft Edge add-ons ...

The extensions were seen profiling users, reading cookie data to create unique identifiers, and executing payloads with browser API access. A threat actor has published over a hundred malicious ...

With increasing concerns over online privacy, the importance of using privacy browser extensions has never been higher. Every website visit, search query, and online transaction can potentially expose ...

I built 10 simple, secure Chrome extensions to fix everyday browsing gaps, from quick notes and site shortcuts to clean copy, per-site tasks, highlights, temp snippets, dummy passwords, quick IDs, and ...

Despite being a memory hog, Google Chrome is the go-to browser for many of us. While part of the reason for this is that it's highly compatible, easy to use, and offers stable performance, what draws ...

Chrome v142 removes the workaround flags that allowed Manifest v2 extensions, such as uBlock Origin, to continue running. However, users can add a new string to Chrome’s shortcut to get Manifest v2 ...

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a coordinated campaign that leveraged 131 rebranded clones of a WhatsApp Web automation extension for Google Chrome to spam Brazilian users at scale. The 131 ...