Research shows that even simple Chrome extensions can quietly invade user privacy, with some hijacking clipboards, ...

Browsers make it easy to save payment info, but that convenience opens the door to malware, breaches, and data theft. We tell you what to do instead.

LayerX discovered 16 extensions in the Chrome Web Store and Microsoft Edge Add-ons marketplace that steal users’ ChatGPT ...

While some consumers spend hours researching must-add Google Chrome extensions, most don't consider which ones they need to delete. Following a seven-year cyberhacking campaign that infected roughly 4 ...

This week, security software firm Socket revealed research showing that two Chrome browser extensions, each named Phantom Shuttle and advertised as VPN-like tools, had been quietly siphoning off ...

The convenience of extension cords can't be ignored. Does the cord on that new nightstand lamp not quite reach the bedroom outlet? Naturally, you reach for an extension cord. The same goes when it ...

A hot potato: Several widely installed browser extensions endorsed by both Google and Microsoft secretly captured detailed user interactions with AI chat platforms. According to findings released by ...

Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting users’ complete and extended AI conversations and selling them for marketing purposes, according to data collected from the Google ...

A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions with more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor. The ...

In early December 2025, security researchers exposed a cybercrime campaign that had quietly hijacked popular Chrome and Edge browser extensions on a massive scale. A threat group dubbed ShadyPanda ...

A long-running malware campaign quietly evolved over several years and turned trusted Chrome and Edge extensions into spyware. A detailed report from Koi Security reveals that the ShadyPanda operation ...