David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Hundreds of thousands of users have downloaded malicious AI extensions masquerading as ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and others, warn ...

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

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.

A Chrome extension posing as an Amazon ad blocker was caught hijacking affiliate links in the background, redirecting commissions without user consent.

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.

Google’s latest addition to its Chrome browser puts generative AI behind the wheel and you in the passenger seat. The release of Auto Browse is part of Google’s continued integration of AI features ...

Google patches a critical Chrome vulnerability already under attack by hackers. Users should update their browsers ...

Unlike the OpenAI agent, Google’s new Auto Browse agent has extraordinary reach because it’s part of Chrome, the world’s most popular browser by a wide margin. Google began rolling out Auto Browse (in ...

Five extensions were doing all sorts of malicious acts, including stealing payment data.

Gemini in Chrome has just been refreshed with three new features that integrate more Gemini capabilities within Chrome for Windows, MacOS, and Chromebook Plus. The update adds an AI side panel, ...