Until now, the extension has been installed by roughly 400 users, according to stats available on its official Chrome Web Store listing. Image: ZDNet The extension's name is Flash Reader.

Google has removed more than 500 malicious Chrome extensions from its official Web Store following a two-months long investigation conducted by security researcher Jamila Kaya and Cisco's Duo ...

Google has officially launched its Chrome Web Store for Enterprises, allowing organizations to create a curated list of extensions that can be installed in employees' web browsers.

Google shared today that there are now more than 180,000 extensions in the Chrome Web Store, with nearly half of Chrome desktop users using extensions.

Google has confirmed that all commercial, paid for, extensions have been temporarily suspended from being published or updated in the Chrome Web Store. A "significant increase in the number of ...

Google wants to clean up the Chrome Web Store, the space that lists extensions for Chrome. More than 200,000 extensions are available in total according to Google .

Google has kicked out more than 500 malicious extensions from the Chrome Store. The discovery of the dodgy extensions is a good reminder to review your own.

Google today announced that it will ban from its Chrome Web Store any and all browser extensions that mine crypto.. Mining cryptocurrencies in the browser isn’t the most efficient way for ...

Google is testing a new feature in the Chrome browser that will warn users when an installed extension has been removed from the Chrome Web Store, usually indicative of it being malware.

Until now, Chrome Web Store policy has permitted cryptocurrency mining in extensions as long as it is the extension’s single purpose, and the user is adequately informed about the mining ...

Google banishes cryptocurrency mining extensions from Chrome Web Store. The tech giant is taking the measure after a rise in malicious browser extensions that mine digital money by hijacking the ...

Google is going to stop allowing non-sanctioned extensions to work on its Chrome for Windows browser. It's for your safety, you understand.