PCWorld reports that the popular Chrome extension ‘Save image as Type,’ used by over 1 million people, became spyware after being sold to new owners. The compromised extension hijacked affiliate links ...

Seemingly out of nowhere, the “Save image as Type” Chrome extension was marked for removal, with Google warning users that the extension contains malware. The extension had at least one million users.

Do you use the Chrome extension "Save image as Type?" If so, you are one of more than one million users who woke up this morning to find out that Google has disabled the extension in your Chrome web ...

Your web browser may feel like a safe place, especially when you install helpful tools that promise to make your life easier. But security researchers have uncovered ...

Over 260,000 Google Chrome users have downloaded fake AI assistants designed to deliver malicious browser extensions which can steal login credentials, monitor emails and enable remote access by ...

Chrome extensions are supposed to make your browser more useful, but they've quietly become one of the easiest ways for attackers to spy on what you do online. Security researchers recently uncovered ...

Google has added a new user agent to its help documentation named Google-CWS. This is the Chrome Web Store user agent that is a user-triggered fetchers. More details. Google posted about the new user ...

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Google seems to be all-in on its “AI” search results, to the detriment of the web at large and no small amount of users. It seems to be the end result of years of diminishing quality for search ...

Claude’s web agent needs more cooking, but it does put some thoughtful protections in place for your data right now. Here’s my advice for getting started with it. I’ve been writing about consumer ...

Good news! If you can’t be bothered to search the internet any more, soon you won’t have to. That’s right — there’s a new Claude Chrome extension in town. Earlier this week, Anthropic announced that ...

Google has inadvertently been promoting sophisticated spyware that can hijack browser sessions with malicious redirects hidden in a legitimate Chrome extension. The extension, which offers a ...