Fake Chrome AI extensions targeted over 300,000 users to steal emails, personal data and more

Criminals are pushing surveillance tools into the Google Chrome Web Store ...
The Register on MSN

Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers

Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher says They know where you've been and they're going ...
Bleeping Computer

Data-stealing Chrome extensions impersonate Fortinet, YouTube, VPNs

A Google Chrome Web Store campaign uses over 100 malicious browser extensions that mimic legitimate tools, such as VPNs, AI assistants, and crypto utilities, to steal browser cookies and execute ...
Ars Technica

Google can’t defend shady Chrome data hoarding as “browser agnostic,” court says

Chrome users who declined to sync their Google accounts with their browsing data secured a big privacy win this week after previously losing a proposed class action claiming that Google secretly ...
Dark Reading

Browser Extension Harvests 8M Users' AI Chatbot Data

A popular browser extension that acts as a VPN to protect users' privacy is actually harvesting and facilitating the sale of data from conversations with AI chatbot assistants. While versions previous ...
Forbes

Billions Of Google Chrome Users Warned As Syncjacking Hack Steals Data

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. As I reported Dec. 29, hackers using compromised Chrome ...
Bleeping Computer

New details reveal how hackers hijacked 35 Google Chrome extensions

New details have emerged about a phishing campaign targeting Chrome browser extension developers that led to the compromise of at least thirty-five extensions to inject data-stealing code, including ...