An extension I used almost every day was bought by a new owner and loaded up with spyware. It happened in 2024, but Google only removed it this week.

Google finally removed the popular "Save image as Type" Chrome extension for secretly stealing affiliate commissions, a full ...

Google Chrome alert: the "Save Image as Type" browser extension has been disabled as it contains malware, but there are ...

This is where the popular Chrome extension Save Image as Type comes in (or used to come in). With over a million users at its ...

Reddit users seem to have identified the problem.

Seemingly out of nowhere, the “Save image as Type” Chrome extension was marked for removal, with Google warning users ...

How can an extension change hands with no oversight?

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Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

Fake browser extensions are nothing new, but this one takes things a step further by deliberately breaking your computer to scare you into infecting it. Security researchers have uncovered a malicious ...

Marketed as ChatGPT enhancement and productivity tools, the extensions allow the threat actor to access the victim’s ChatGPT data. A threat actor has created 16 browser extensions to steal users’ ...