The Chrome Web Store has been infested with dozens of malicious browser extensions claiming to provide AI assistant functionality but that secretly are siphoning off personal information from victims.

Criminals are pushing surveillance tools into the Google Chrome Web Store ...

Are you a good bot or a bad bot? More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be ...

Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher says They know where you've been and they're going to share it. A security researcher has identified 287 Chrome extensions ...

IT researchers have traced numerous Chrome extensions back to a campaign that jeopardizes the information of 260.000 users.

A set of 30 malicious Chrome extensions that have been installed by more than 300,000 users are masquerading as AI assistants to steal credentials, email content, and browsing information.

Despite ongoing efforts by Google to tighten security, malicious browser extensions continue to find their way onto the Chrome Web Store — and into users’ ...

Hundreds of popular add‑ons used encrypted, URL‑sized payloads to send search queries, referrers, and timestamps to outside servers, in some cases tied to data brokers and unknown operators.