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Google will be extending the Safety check feature within the Chrome browser to alert users when a previously installed extension is no longer available in the Chrome Web Store. A safety check for Chrome extensions The Safety check scan can be run from … Continue reading Chrome will tell users when extensions they use are removed from Chrome Web Store
ChatGPT has garnered a lot of questions about its security and capacity for manipulation, partly because it is a new software that has seen unprecedented growth (hosting 100 million users just two months following its launch). Security concerns vary fr… Continue reading Fake ChatGPT Chrome extension targeted Facebook Ad accounts
Starting January 2021, developers of Chrome extensions will have to certify their data use and privacy practices and provide information about the data collected by the extension(s), “in clear and easy to understand language,” in the extens… Continue reading Google forces devs to reveal Chrome extensions’ data use, privacy practices
Trojan Chrome browser extensions spied on users and maintained a foothold on the networks of financial services, oil and gas, media and entertainment, healthcare and pharmaceuticals and government organizations. Continue reading Google Yanks 106 ‘Malicious’ Chrome Extensions
Google deleted more malicious extensions from the Chrome Web Store after they were found to be phishing cryptocurrency users. Continue reading More crypto-stealing Chrome extensions swatted by Google
The policies are specifically meant to fight spam, but they outlaw tactics taken by malicious extensions as well, including fake reviews. Continue reading Google fights spammy extensions with new Chrome Web Store policy
With Google Chrome being by far the most widely used web browser, Google must constantly tweak protections, rules and policies to keep malicious, unhelpful and otherwise potentially unwanted extensions out of the Chrome Web Store. The latest change of … Continue reading Google announces cull of low-quality, misleading Chrome extensions
They were posing as crypto wallets in order to rip off users’ private keys and mnemonic phrases and drain real wallets. Google’s yanked them. Continue reading 49 malicious Chrome extensions caught pickpocketing crypto wallets
Google starts warning users of “security” issues when downloading extensions from the Chrome Web Store on the new Microsoft Edge browser.
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Google Chrome extension developers have been left high and dry for weeks as the company struggles to cope with a spike in fraud on the Chrome Web Store. Continue reading Fraud spike prompts Chrome developer lock-out