Like any garden, the digital landscape experiences the emergence of unexpected blooms. Among the helpful flora of browser and application extensions, some appear with intentions less than pure. These deceptive ones, often born from a fleeting desire for illicit gain or mischievous disruption, may possess a certain transient beauty in their ingenuity. They arrive, sometimes subtly flawed in their execution, yet are driven by an aspiration to infiltrate our digital lives, to harvest our data, or to simply sow chaos.
Eight malicious extensions still remain in Chrome Web Store. These use some interesting tricks to keep running arbitrary code despite restrictions of Manifest V3.
The Galaxy App Store is an alternative application store that comes pre-installed on Samsung Android devices. Several Android applications are available on both the Galaxy App Store and Google App Store, and users have the option to use either store to install specific applications. Two vulnerabilities were uncovered with the Galaxy App Store application: Technical…
In 2020, we announced we were in the early phases of establishing the Chrome Root Program and launching the Chrome Root Store.
The Chrome Root Program ultimately determines which website certificates are trusted by default in Chrome, and enables more consistent and reliable website certificate validation across platforms.
This post shares an update on our progress and how these changes help us better protect Chrome’s users.
Joker, Facestealers and Banker swarming Google Play store
