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.

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.

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 ...

Chrome Web Store is again in the spotlight, and not for good reasons once again. Symantec researchers have recently discovered several browser extensions that somehow slipped past Google’s security ...

Hundreds of thousands of users have downloaded malicious AI extensions masquerading as ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and others, warn ...

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

Criminals are pushing surveillance tools into the Google Chrome Web Store ...

Tens of thousands of people have downloaded what they believed were useful AI tools for their browsers, only to give hackers a direct path into their most private online activity, including emails.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered several malicious Google Chrome extensions that hijack Amazon affiliate links, steal data, and collect ChatGPT authentication tokens. In late January, Socket ...

Some of the most harmless-looking Chrome extensions are doing far more than they promise, and new research shows just how easily everyday tools can turn into privacy risks. Security researchers warn ...

In late December, a routine browser update quietly became a point of failure. The Trust Wallet extension hack, tied to the Shai-Hulud malware campaign, was a supply chain attack that enabled silent ...

Did our AI summary help? A long-running and highly sophisticated malware campaign has been quietly targeting users of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge, and chances are many people ...