The internet can be a dangerous place, and that's before you start integrating bits of third-party code into your browser. Some of those extensions end up being shady or even outright malicious, and ...

Malicious extensions do occasionally find their way into the Chrome Web Store (and similar libraries in other browsers) by posing as legitimate add-ons. They are particularly difficult to catch when ...

A sophisticated malware operation targeting software developers has expanded its reach by exploiting trusted extension ecosystems, with security researchers uncovering dozens of malicious packages ...

In brief: Just how bad is the problem of malicious extensions on the Chrome Web Store? That depends on who you believe. Google, for its part, says less than 1% of all installs include malware. But a ...