Tag: Browser Extensions
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Guardio Review: Can This Browser Extension Really Protect You From Cybercrime?
Guardio helps improve a user’s browsing experience, combating threats and creating a safer online landscape. But exactly how effective …
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How to Make Sure Your Browser Extensions Are Safe
Browser extensions can be hugely useful, plugging gaps in functionality, adding cool new features and options, and generally just making …
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Is Your Browser Extension a Botnet Backdoor?
A company that rents out access to more than 10 million Web browsers so that clients can hide their true Internet addresses has built its …
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Over a Dozen Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking Google Search Results for Millions
New details have emerged about a vast network of rogue extensions for Chrome and Edge browsers that were found to hijack clicks to links in …
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Malicious Browser Extensions Downloaded 3 Million Times
Researchers at the security firm Avast have found 28 malicious third-party browser extensions used with Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge …
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49 malicious Chrome extensions caught pickpocketing crypto wallets
Google has kicked 49 malicious Chrome browser extensions out of its Web Store that were posing as cryptocurrency wallets in order to drain …
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Rudy Giuliani’s Twitter mishaps invite typosquatters and scammers
Former cybersecurity czar Rudy Giuliani has been targeted by typosquatters on Twitter, thanks to copious misspellings and other keyboarding …
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500 Chrome extensions secretly uploaded private data from millions of users
Beware of extensions Further Reading My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users This latest discovery …
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Fraud spike prompts Chrome developer lock-out
Google Chrome extension developers have been left high and dry for weeks as the company struggles to cope with a spike in fraud on the …
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Mozilla bans Firefox extensions for executing remote code
Every time it looks as if Mozilla is getting on top of the problem of malicious or risky extensions, it finds itself having to step in to …
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