A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions with more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor. The ...
Web browsers are among the most essential pieces of software we use daily, yet we often take them for granted. Most users settle for whatever default ships with their devices -- and that's a mistake.
Koi Security uncovered 17 malicious Firefox extensions that hid backdoors and tracking code, downloaded over 50,000 times The extensions pulled payloads from remote servers, hijacked affiliate links, ...
Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Web browsers are among the most essential pieces of software we use daily, yet we often take them for granted. Most users settle for whatever ...
UBlock Origin, Just Read, and Toby are among the essential free extensions every user should add to their browser for a ...
ShadyPanda, a Chinese hacker group operated several legitimate browser extensions for years before weaponizing them to ...
Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting users’ complete and extended AI conversations and selling them for marketing purposes, according to data collected from the Google ...
A popular browser extension that acts as a VPN to protect users' privacy is actually harvesting and facilitating the sale of data from conversations with AI chatbot assistants. While versions previous ...
This is a cautionary tale for all of you who install extensions to Chrome or add-ons to Edge browsers willy-nilly. Security firm Koi has revealed that browser extensions with more than 8 million ...
A hot potato: Several widely installed browser extensions endorsed by both Google and Microsoft secretly captured detailed user interactions with AI chat platforms. According to findings released by ...
A handful of Chrome extensions have been harvesting entire conversation logs of users' interactions with the most popular AI chatbots. Most chatbot users understand that the companies behind them are ...