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Chrome and Edge Browser Extensions Secretly Hijacked: The 2.3 Million User Wake-Up Call
That harmless emoji keyboard extension you installed last year? It might have been watching your every click. Security researchers at Koi Security just exposed “RedDirection“-a massive spying campaign ...
LayerX discovered 16 extensions in the Chrome Web Store and Microsoft Edge Add-ons marketplace that steal users’ ChatGPT ...
Microsoft is working on several interesting features for Edge, the new Outlook for Windows, and the SharePoint Admin Center.
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Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware
A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people's data to servers in China.
TL;DR: A sophisticated malware campaign infected 2.3 million Chrome and Edge users. It worked because a bunch of browser extensions were on the market for a long time, gaining a trusted reputation, ...
Some users have reported that they can’t remove or uninstall extensions in their Microsoft Edge browser on Windows 11/10. While some users found a suspicious “Apps” name extension that is added in the ...
Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The ...
On Windows and MacOS, Google Chrome’s bread and butter is extensions. They round out the user experience, and each user finds a different arsenal of add-ons useful. That feature never made it to ...
Browser extensions are useful because they bring additional functionality to your web browser, allowing you to do things like track price histories for online products, change CSS styling on certain ...
Extension support adds useful extra features to the browsers that are unavailable by default. Mainstream browsers like Google Chrome, which dominates the market, do not support extensions on mobile.
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