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Fake ChatGPT Chrome extension targeted Facebook Ad accounts

March 9, 2023

ChatGPT has garnered a lot of questions about its security and capacity for manipulation, partly because it is a new software that has seen unprecedented growth (hosting 100 …

Google forces devs to reveal Chrome extensions’ data use, privacy practices

November 19, 2020

Starting January 2021, developers of Chrome extensions will have to certify their data use and privacy practices and provide information about the data collected by the …

Google announces cull of low-quality, misleading Chrome extensions

April 30, 2020

With Google Chrome being by far the most widely used web browser, Google must constantly tweak protections, rules and policies to keep malicious, unhelpful and otherwise …

Should you trust that Chrome extension? Use CRXcavator to decide

February 22, 2019

Duo Security has released CRXcavator, a tool that can help end users and enterprises make an informed decision about installing a specific Chrome extension. About CRXcavator …

Google to make Chrome extensions safer and privacy-preserving

October 2, 2018

Google has announced a number of security changes in the Chrome extensions system: a more thorough extensions review process, better user controls, and a new manifest that …

Google to purge cryptomining extensions from Chrome Web Store

April 3, 2018

In a bid to prevent Chrome users’ computers being covertly used for cryptocurrency mining, Google will try to purge the Chrome Web Store of extensions that hijack …

Chrome Web Store developers have to improve user data transparency

April 18, 2016

Google has announced that it’s modifying the User Data Policy for the Chrome Web Store, and developers have three months to make the needed changes if they don’t …

Google completes ban of extensions not in the Chrome Web Store

May 15, 2015

Google is slowly but surely working on preventing developers of malicious Chrome extensions from delivering their wares to users.First, in May 2014, they made it so that …

Google boots unwanted ad injector extensions from Chrome Web Store

April 2, 2015

Google is done with tolerating sneaky ad injectors and, following the results of a study they recently conducted, they removed from the Chrome Web Store 192 deceptive Chrome …

Researchers find malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store

September 11, 2014

Earlier this year, Google has made it so that extension that are not hosted on the Chrome Web Store can’t be installed and used by users of its popular browser. This …

Google implements malware scan for submissions to Chrome Web Store

June 25, 2013

Late last week, Google has announced that submissions to the Chrome Web Store will, from now on, be checked for malware. Mimicking the Android Bouncer program incorporated …

Apps with dangerous permissions pulled from Chrome Web Store

May 27, 2011

Do you trust Google to review and ban potentially malicious applications from its online stores? The Android Market has already been found offering “trojanized” …

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