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How harmful extensions quietly track users online

Browser extensions have become an integral part of our browsers. Whether they are ad blockers or anti-viruses, they enhance our everyday productivity and significantly improve our convenience. Since ...
Malicious Chrome and Edge extensions collected browsing history, keystrokes and personal data from millions of users before ...
Learn how the ShadyPanda campaign turned trusted browser extensions into spyware and the steps security teams can take to ...
Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting complete and extended conversations from users’ AI ...
Browser extensions are a modern fact of online life. And with good reason – they can help to streamline our everyday computing headaches, enhance the browsing experience (thank you, Ad Blocker), and ...
What just happened? A number of Microsoft Edge users have reported strange redirections from Google searches with no unexpected addons in their browser. After some serious Reddit sleuthing, several ...
Security researchers have uncovered a troubling new malware campaign that has been hiding malicious code inside the logo ...
Koi's investigation identified eight such extensions available on the Chrome Web Store and Microsoft Edge Add-ons page, collectively surpassing eight million installations. Seven of them carried ...
Enterprises rely on browser-based GenAI, increasing data-exposure risks and demanding strict policies, isolation, and ...
Security researchers recently discovered two extensions for the Google Chrome browser were rerouting valuable traffic through compromised proxies, and thus sharing sensitive information with malicious ...