Makers of Copyfish OCR software get taken on wild ride after code for its Chrome extension is stolen. A popular free optical character recognition (OCR) extension for web browsers called Copyfish was ...

On Friday, an unknown hacker hijacked the Copyfish Chrome extension from its original authors and pushed an update that inserted ads in people's web pages. The hack took place because one of the ...

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EXCLUSIVE — Google's security team has sent out warnings via email to Chrome extension developers after many of them have been the targets of phishing attacks, some of which have been successful and ...

The list of compromised Chrome extensions that hijack traffic and substitute advertisements on victims’ browsers grows. The number of compromised Chrome browser extensions is growing beyond the ...

Twice in five days, developers of Chrome browser extensions have lost control of their code after unidentified attackers compromised the Google Chrome Web Store accounts used to issue updates. The ...

Attackers have been phishing developers as a way of compromising Chrome extensions into spreading affiliate program ads that scare victims into paying for PC repairs. Proofpoint researcher Kafeine has ...