Malicious Chrome extensions caught stealing sensitive data

Chrome extensions called "Phantom Shuttle" stole user data for years before Google removed them from the Chrome Web Store ...
CSOonline

Featured Chrome extension FreeVPN.One caught capturing and transmitting user data

FreeVPN.One silently takes screenshots of users’ activity and transmits them to a remote server, raising enterprise data loss concerns. Chrome extension, FreeVPN.One, has been found secretly capturing ...
Dark Reading

Fake AI Chrome Extensions Steal 900K Users' Data

Threat actors ripped off a legitimate AI-powered Chrome extension in order to harvest ChatGPT and DeepSeek data before ...
Forbes

Google Chrome Warning—‘Millions Of Users Have Data Stolen’

Google has issued an urgent warning for 2 billion Chrome users. A high-severity memory vulnerability could enable attackers to target users through the websites they visit. This has been fixed and all ...
Ars Technica

Google can’t defend shady Chrome data hoarding as “browser agnostic,” court says

Chrome users who declined to sync their Google accounts with their browsing data secured a big privacy win this week after previously losing a proposed class action claiming that Google secretly ...
Bleeping Computer

Cybersecurity firm's Chrome extension hijacked to steal users' data

At least five Chrome extensions were compromised in a coordinated attack where a threat actor injected code that steals sensitive information from users. One attack was disclosed by Cyberhaven, a data ...