Over 50 malicious Chrome extensions are secretly spying on you

It is not uncommon for extensions to be modified to attack users. Chrome has been a victim of these attacks for several years and now it has a problem affecting it again. Altogether...

Over 6 Million Chrome Extensions Can Execute Remote Commands On Users’ Browsers - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

A major security incident has come to light involving more than six million installations of Chrome browser extensions that secretly execute remote commands, track user activity, and potentially expose sensitive information. John Tuckner of secure Annex have identified at least 35 related extensions, many of which are unlisted in the Chrome Web Store, making them invisible to casual users and difficult for security teams to detect. The investiga…

Over 50 malicious Chrome extensions are secretly spying on you

If you've installed any of these Chrome extensions, you should uninstall them and change your passwords ASAP.

Chrome users would have to take a look at the new extensions that have been marked as dangerous to avoid exposing themselves to security issues. In total, these extensions add up to more than 6 million installations, so this is a complicated situation. A few days ago we told you that a security specialist from the firm Secure Annex had given the alert about dozens of extensions of Chrome that were hiding malicious code. It was a pretty loud case…

57 Chrome Extensions With Six Million Users Found with Risky Capabilties

A new security warning was issued after 57 Chrome extensions having a six-million-user userbase were found to have risky capabilities. This included accessing users' cookies for domains, executing scripts, and keeping tabs on users’ browsing activities.The latest extensions are usually disguised, which means they won’t show up in the searches done on the Chrome Web Store. Similarly, they don’t get indexed by the search engine and could be instal…

Over 6 Million Chrome Extensions Found Executing Remote Commands

Security researchers have uncovered a network of over 35 Google Chrome extensions—collectively installed on more than 6 million browsers—secretly executing remote commands and potentially spying on users for years. The alarming discovery began during a routine security review at an organization using a monitoring feature provided by Secure Annex. Among a list of 132 extensions, […] The post Over 6 Million Chrome Extensions Found Executing Remote…