'Web Of Trust' Browser Add-On Caught Selling Users' Data — Uninstall It Now

Browser extensions have become a standard part of the most popular browsers and essential part of our lives for surfing the Internet. But not all extensions can be trusted. One such innocent looking browser add-on has been caught collecting browsing history of millions of users and selling them t...

The vulnerability of the Safari browser, which allows a hacker to compromise the security of information.

The vulnerability of Safari browser extensions lies in the lack of a confirmation request required for replacing existing extensions. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to compromise the security of information remotely...

The vulnerability of Google Chrome browser allows a violator to circumvent existing access restrictions policies.

The vulnerability of the extensions/renderer/resources/binding.js component in Google Chrome’s browser-based bindings extensions is related to the improper use of prototypes. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to bypass existing access control policies...

Firefox Security Toolkit - A Tool that Transforms Firefox Browsers into a Penetration Testing Suite

A tool that transforms Firefox Browsers into a penetration testing suite How? It downloads the most important extensions, and install it on your browser. The used extensions has been chosen by a survey among the information security community. Based on it's results, Firefox Security Toolkit was...

Google Research Reveals Profitable, Pervasive Ad Injector Ecosystem

More than five percent of all unique IP addresses accessing Google sites included some kind of ad injector software, and there are more than 50,000 of those injector browser extensions in use today, according to new research from Google. The company conducted the research over the course of sever...

Google to Publish Research on Browser Ad Injectors

Google is preparing to release new research on the prevalence of ad injectors, the often-unwanted browser extensions that inject ads onto Web pages, and the numbers will show just how widespread and problematic the software is. Ad injectors belong to that great, amorphous pile of applications tha...

Malware Poses as Flash Update Infects 110,000 Facebook Users within 2 Days

Facebook users just Beware!! Don’t click any porn links on Facebook. Foremost reason is that you have thousands of good porn sites out there, but there's an extra good reason right now. Rogue pornography links on the world’s most popular social network have reportedly infected over 110,000 Facebo...

Microsoft Changing Detection of Adware and Browser Modifiers

One of the not-so-great side effects of the transition to virtually everything being done in the Web browser now is that advertisers, attackers and scammers constantly are trying to get their code to run in users’ browsers, any way they can. A lot of this is done through extensions and browser...

Google Chrome < 37.0.2062.94 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Malicious Firefox, Chrome Extensions Target Facebook Users

Facebook users are being warned of malicious Firefox and Chrome extensions that can give an attacker remote control over a Facebook profile. Microsoft has seen an increase in activity around these extensions, in particular in Brazil. The threat is detected as Trojan:JS/Febipos.A and has been...

Remotely controlled Malware as Browser extensions

"Browser extensions extend the functionality of the web browser. These extensions improve the appearance, functionality, security or other parts of the browser. Extensions were also developed with malicious intent, in order to generate revenue or just spread the code between more and more browser...

Like Those Wikipedia Ads? They Mean You're Infected With Malware!

The Wikimedia Foundation is warning its millions of visitors that if they’re seeing ads appearing on any of the Foundation’s Web sites, then their computer is probably infected with malware. The Foundation issued a statement on Monday clarifying that it never runs ads on the Web site for Wikipedi...

Disable Third Party Browser Extensions

The Advanced tab contains settings that apply to all of the security zones. We recommend that you disable the Enable third-party browser extensions option. This option includes toolbars and Browser Helper Objects BHOs. While some add-ons can be useful, they also have the ability to violate your...