The extension purports to be a basic PDF processor that can do ... Well, the extensions could be collecting browser data, adding extra ads to every web page someone visits, or even recording ...

When Amazon offered recently to pay Prime members $10 to download its Assistant browser extension ... the company says extensions "add functionality" to ..."explore the web the way you want.

in an academic paper titled Empowering Web Applications with Browser Extensions (PDF). A web application is a client-server computer program that a computing device runs in a web browser – such ...

Extensions can add all sorts of new functionality to your favorite web browser, but they can also contain hidden threats with more than 1.3 million users affected in the first half of 2022 alone.

Extensions are plug-ins that give your web browser superpowers - or at the very least, capabilities it didn’t have right out of the box. But the way extensions are built and distributed also ...

Most of us spend a lot of time inside a web browser. If you're a Chrome, Firefox, or Edge user, then you'll know these browsers come with a huge number of third-party extensions to augment the ...

A recent leak of private Facebook messages, primarily in Europe, should remind consumers to be cautious when downloading and using web browser extensions, security experts say. That’s because ...

The most common payloads carried by malicious web browser extensions during the first half ... typically mimicking productivity tools such as DOC to PDF converters and document merging utilities.