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 ...

A popular Chrome extension for Copyfish fell prey to hackers this week to churn out adware and spam to users. iStock Copyfish, the free and popular optical character recognition (OCR) extension for ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Google Chrome browser add-on Copyfish has been compromised. Cybercriminals managed to compromise the Chrome Web Store account of German developer team a9t9 software – who are behind the popular ...