Extensions are plug-ins that give your web browser superpowers - or at the very least, capabilities it didn't have right out ...

Researchers from DomainTools have discovered over 100 malicious extensions in the Chrome Web Store that can steal users' data ...

Launched by browser security provider LayerX, the free ExtensionPedia seeks to help individuals and enterprises alike by ...

Everybody uses browser extensions at home and at work, but can you always trust that ad blocker or coupon finder not to steal ...

Two Ukrainian men used online quizzes to lure more than 60,000 Facebook users into installing malicious browser extensions that exfiltrated their profile data and friends lists to offshore servers ...

However, extensions are easier to mimic and turn into malicious software compared to apps. As we just reported, over 3.2 million users were victimized by a security breach tied to 16 malicious ...

Secure Annex cybersecurity researcher John Tuckner has identified 57 malicious Chrome extensions that can be used to track your activities or run malware. Although most of the extensions in ...

Heard of polymorphic browser extensions yet? These savage impostors threaten the very future of credential management. Here's ...

The malicious script attempts to load a specific file or URL unique to targetted extensions, and if it loads, it can be concluded that the extension is installed.

Since the experiment did not have malicious intent, the analysts only collected identifying information and included a disclosure in the extension's Read Me, license, and the code. After the ...

Researchers find malicious browser extensions can assume the appearance of any other installed in the browser It can also disable other extensions, completely tricking the victim The extension can ...

An unknown threat actor is deploying a large-scale, sophisticated cryptojacking campaign through a series of malicious extensions in Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s lightweight source-code editor, ...