More than three million Google Chrome users have been issued a warning about 16 browser extensions that have been compromised by hackers. Cybersecurity experts are now urging users to delete them ...

Google is adding a new feature to Chrome 117 that will proactively alert you when an extension isn’t in the Chrome Web Store. The company is also going to automatically upgrade URLs with HTTP to ...

The Chrome extension warning comes after Gmail users were told to be vigilant after a new scam saw hackers using AI calls to try to get access to Google email accounts.

Anyone who uses Chrome to surf the web must be on high alert and check they haven't downloaded and rogue browser extensions.

There are probably hundreds of thousands of Google Chrome extensions out there, and with so many options to choose from, it can be hard to know whether the plugin you want to install is hiding ...

Warnings will help fight onslaught of malicious extensions The first of these warnings is for extensions that take over the user's proxy settings, effectively hijacking the user's Internet connection.

When attempting to download an extension that’s not trusted, Chrome will show a pop-up warning that you should “proceed with caution.”However, there’s still the option to “continue to ...

Security researchers have uncovered dozens of malicious Chrome and Edge extensions secretly tracking users’ online activity ...

EXCLUSIVE — Google's security team has sent out warnings via email to Chrome extension developers after many of them have been the targets of phishing attacks, some of which have been successful ...

If they don’t have a warning message on the Chrome Web Store page, they should be fine. Google said back in May that 85% of actively maintained extensions in the Chrome Web Store are already ...

A Chrome deceptive URL extension... Skip to main content. Toggle main menu ... A new warning built into Chrome 75 will flag deceptive URLs via a fullscreen page that notes when something is wrong.

Google has started warning Chrome users about using ad blockers. The popular web browser isn’t threatening users to switch off or uninstall these extensions. However, a major change would make ...