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Google patches actively exploited Chrome (CVE‑2025‑6554)

July 1, 2025

Google has released a security update for Chrome to address a zero‑day vulnerability (CVE-2025-6554) that its Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered and reported last week. …

What your browser knows about you, from contacts to card numbers

May 9, 2025

Chrome and Safari are the most popular browser apps, accounting for 90% of the mobile browsers market share, according to Surfshark. They also collect the most data. Chrome: …

Critical Firefox, Tor Browser sandbox escape flaw fixed (CVE-2025-2857)

March 28, 2025

Google’s fixing of CVE-2025-2783, a Chrome zero-day vulnerability exploited by state-sponsored attackers, has spurred Firefox developers to check whether the browser …

Google “confirms” that exploited Chrome zero-day is actually in libwebp (CVE-2023-5129)

September 27, 2023

UPDATE (September 28, 2023, 03:15 a.m. ET): The CVE-2023-5129 ID has been either rejected or withdrawn by the CVE Numbering Authority (Google), since it’s a duplicate of …

Rilide browser extension steals MFA codes

April 7, 2023

Cryptocurrency thieves are targeting users of Chromium-based browsers – Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave Browser, and Opera – with an extension that steals …

Browser synchronization abuse: Bookmarks as a covert data exfiltration channel

August 2, 2022

Two universal and seemingly innocuous browser features – the ability to create bookmarks (aka “favorites”) and browser synchronization – make …

Safari, other mobile browsers affected by address bar spoofing flaws

October 21, 2020

Security researcher Rafay Baloch has discovered address bar spoofing vulnerabilities in several mobile browsers, which could allow attackers to trick users into sharing …

How secure is your web browser?

July 16, 2020

NSS Labs released the results of its web browser security test after testing Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera, for phishing protection and malware …

How to keep your browser and devices safe from cryptojackers

January 2, 2018

Cryptojacking makes surfing the web similar to walking through a minefield: you never know when you might land on a booby-trapped site. Stealthy cryptocurrency mining scripts …

Why the Vivaldi browser wants you to control everything

July 12, 2016

The number of Internet users has been growing steadily, and now stands at nearly 3.5 billion. And despite the growing popularity of mobile devices and specialized apps, the …

Opera browser’s VPN is just a proxy, here’s how it works

April 22, 2016

Yesterday, Opera announced they’ve added a free VPN client with unlimited data usage in the latest developer version of their browser. Sounds great, doesn’t it? …

Opera browser now comes with free built-in VPN

April 21, 2016

Opera added a free VPN client with unlimited data usage in its newest developer version. All other VPNs for the major desktop browsers are extensions, with most of them based …