Four serious new vulnerabilities affect Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Cursor and Windsurf extensions, three of which remain ...
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.
Critical vulnerabilities in four widely used VS Code extensions could enable file theft and remote code execution across 125M installs.
Three of the four vulnerabilities remained unpatched months after OX Security reported them to the maintainers.
Chrome Web Store is again in the spotlight, and not for good reasons once again. Symantec researchers have recently discovered several browser extensions that somehow slipped past Google’s security ...
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 ...
A few weeks ago, we covered DarkSpectre, a threat actor responsible for running numerous spyware campaigns that, combined, infected a total of at least 8.8 million Google Chrome, Mozilla FireFox, and ...
Security researchers LayerX have discovered 17 extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browsers which monitored people’s internet activity and installed backdoors for persistent access. In total, the ...
Good browsers work well with their standard features alone. They can protect you when browsing online, autofill your login information, and manage your favorite websites with ease. Some go beyond and ...
Browser extensions promise convenience. Many offer simple tools like new tab pages, translators or video helpers. Researchers, however, uncovered a long-running malware operation that abused that ...
If you spend most of your waking hours glued to your computer, you're probably always on the hunt for better ways to work. That can mean using tools to capture and save information quickly, setting up ...
I built 10 simple, secure Chrome extensions to fix everyday browsing gaps, from quick notes and site shortcuts to clean copy, per-site tasks, highlights, temp snippets, dummy passwords, quick IDs, and ...