BipApp by is a Google Chrome extension that has a description of "Search From your address bar with BipApp Search" that hijacks your browser search to another search engine. When installed, this ...

More than 300,000 Chrome users have installed what looked like helpful AI add-ons that were actually data-stealing extensions ...

Wisip is a Google Chrome extension that has a description of "This extension configures your Default Search to Smash Search (srchus.xyz)". When installed, this ...

Hundreds of popular add‑ons used encrypted, URL‑sized payloads to send search queries, referrers, and timestamps to outside servers, in some cases tied to data brokers and unknown operators.

That absurdly underestimates the degree of anticompetitive behaviour Microsoft engaged in, in order to try to drive Netscape off the desktop and therefore to prevent other platforms from being able to ...

Here’s a first look at the Desktop Android version of Google Chrome, which supports browser extensions. Extension support is pretty rudimentary at the moment, but Google is hard at work making it ...

Chrome is a big part of day to day life for a significant portion of the world. That’s true not just for day-to-day users either. That includes work, entertainment, or other use cases too. Google’s ...

Your trusted extension/add-on with over 100k review might be spying on you.

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a serious threat hiding inside Google Chrome. Several browser extensions pretend to be helpful tools. In reality, they quietly take over user accounts. These ...

You can add extensions to Chrome using the web browser's store. Chrome is compatible with thousands of extensions that add features and capabilities to your browser ...

Despite numerous efforts by Google, browser hijacking in browsers, including Google Chrome, has remained the biggest security problem. Data shows over 32% of undetectable malware is spread through the ...

It's stuff like this that makes me nervous about extensions from anyone other than major companies, and prefer browsers that pack a lot of functionality in to begin with, like old Presto Opera and now ...