Malicious Chrome and Edge extensions that once looked harmless have quietly turned into a sprawling spyware operation, compromising more than 4 million devices and turning everyday browsing into a ...

A widespread campaign featuring a malicious installer that saddles users with difficult-to-remove malicious Chrome and Edge browser extensions has been spotted by researchers. “The trojan malware ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

A sneaky new malware operation can force rogue extensions onto Chrome and Edge without your consent to steal passwords and ...

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. Al is a long ...

Researchers showed one browser extension could hijack AI features in five Chromium products; some demos could access files, ...

Microsoft has announced that it will end support for the Microsoft 365 browser extensions for both its own Edge browser and Google's Chrome on January 15, 2024. There's no word on why this will happen ...

A banking malware operation active since mid-2025 has been using a toolkit named KREMLIN to install malicious Chrome and Edge ...

On Windows and MacOS, Google Chrome’s bread and butter is extensions. They round out the user experience, and each user finds a different arsenal of add-ons useful. That feature never made it to ...

Extension support adds useful extra features to the browsers that are unavailable by default. Mainstream browsers like Google Chrome, which dominates the market, do not support extensions on mobile.