Google is testing a new feature in the Chrome browser that will warn users when an installed extension has been removed from the Chrome Web Store, usually indicative of it being malware. An unending ...

With Google's recent flagging of the popular Save as Image Type Chrome extension, now is a good time to take stock of all ...

ChromeWebStore is a malicious Chrome extension that is installed via an executable rather than through the Chrome Web Store. When installed and Chrome is opened, the Chrome Web Store extension will ...

Google is hosting dozens of extensions in its Chrome Web Store that perform suspicious actions on the more than 4 million devices that have installed them and that their developers have taken pains to ...

This has been a long time coming, but starting today, Chrome users on Windows will only be able to install extensions from Google’s own Chrome Web Store. Google argues that this is meant to keep ...

Chrome extensions are supposed to make your browser more useful, but they've quietly become one of the easiest ways for attackers to spy on what you do online. Security researchers recently uncovered ...

I stopped relying on Chrome extensions and realized my browser worked better without them.

A lot of what we do on our computers goes through the browser, and that means any extensions you choose to add on top of that browser have a very privileged position: They can see where you’re going ...