Researchers have uncovered 30 Chrome extensions stealing user data. Here’s how to check your browser and remove any malicious extensions step by step.

Tech expert ThioJoe details how to find and remove malicious Chrome extensions to protect your browser.

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.

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.

Security experts have uncovered dangerous Chrome extensions that promise or impersonate AI tools to steal sensitive data.

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 ...

More than 300 Chrome extensions were found to be leaking browser data, spying on users, or stealing user information.

More than 300,000 Chrome users have installed what looked like helpful AI add-ons that were actually data-stealing extensions ...

Over 260,000 users installed fake AI Chrome extensions that used iframe injection to steal browser and Gmail data, exposing ...

Tens of thousands of people have downloaded what they believed were useful AI tools for their browsers, only to give hackers a direct path into their most private online activity, including emails.

In total, the analysts examined the 32.000 most popular Chrome extensions out of the 240.000 available in the Chrome Webstore. They identified 287, some of them very popular, candidates that ...

A study by Q Continuum analyzed 32,000 Chrome extensions and found 287 that send sensitive data to developers, affecting about 37 million users. Among the notable extensions are well-known names like ...