Browser extensions can be just as dangerous as regular apps, and their integration with the tool everyone’s constantly using can make them seem erroneously innocuous. Case in point: a collection of ...

A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people's data to servers in China.

That harmless emoji keyboard extension you installed last year? It might have been watching your every click. Security researchers at Koi Security just exposed “RedDirection“-a massive spying campaign ...

A long-running malware campaign quietly evolved over several years and turned trusted Chrome and Edge extensions into spyware. A detailed report from Koi Security reveals that the ShadyPanda operation ...

Remember browser bars of the '00's... Going over to grandma's and launching IE only to be met with half a screen of browser bars. Spending a good hour uninstalling them, cleaning up the debris left ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy. The team warns that “most users don’t realize that browser ...