Users have been told to delete 16 hijacked Chrome extensions. advertisement. Metro. Urgent Google Chrome warning issued with over 3,000,000 users at risk of hacks. Story by Noora Mykkanen ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last year, Google introduced a more advanced tier of protections that anyone can enable in Chrome. Enhanced Safe Browsing now warns users about untrusted extensions, while offering an additional ...

Chrome users are being urged to check they have the latest update installed to keep their Chrome browser safe.

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.

Google is testing a new feature in the Chrome browser that will warn users when an installed extension has been removed from the Chrome Web Store, usually indicative of it being malware.

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 ...

Editor’s Note: As of March 10, the warning on the Chrome Web Store page has been removed, and replaced with a message that says: “You can now add extensions from the Chrome Web Store to ...