A new security investigation has uncovered 287 Chrome extensions that appear to secretly send users’ browsing data to remote servers, impacting an estimated 37.4 million installs. That is roughly 1%1% of the global Chrome user base, based on the researchers’ estimate. The researchers built an automated testing pipeline to catch “spying” behavior at scale. They ran Chrome inside a […]

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