Live wallpaper extensions may look like a harmless way to refresh a browser’s appearance, but researchers recently uncovered 152 potentially dangerous extensions lurking in the Chrome Web Store. Disguised as live wallpapers, these add-ons...
The internet has long been a place where advertising and malicious code travel hand in hand. Soon, however, Chrome users may face a difficult tradeoff. They will need to choose between extension security and...
Security researchers at Socket have uncovered a large-scale spam campaign orchestrated through WhatsApp Web, revealing 131 Chrome extensions that are, in essence, variants of a single mass-messaging automation tool. Disguised as legitimate utilities for...