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Malicious Chrome and Edge add-ons: how to spot them and why they're dangerous
  • extensions

Malicious Chrome and Edge add-ons and ClickFix attacks

What do malicious browser extensions, crypto theft, and fake Chrome update guides have in common? We look at a recent campaign involving 19 infected add-ons.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • September 17, 2026

57 suspicious Chrome extensions with millions of installs
  • extensions

57 shady Chrome extensions clock up six million installs

Researchers find 57 potentially dangerous browser extensions in the Chrome Web Store. Here’s why they’re dangerous, and how not to fall victim.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • May 29, 2025

What security issues does WordPress have?
  • websites

WordPress security issues

Typical security issues of WordPress, and how they can be addressed to protect your website or online store from cybercriminals.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • November 30, 2023

What are the dangers of browser extensions?
  • extensions

Browser extensions: more dangerous than you think

Using the most common families of malicious extensions as an example, we explain what can go wrong after installing a browser plug-in.

  • Anastasia Starikova

  • September 9, 2022

Data Safety section on Google Play
  • Android

Data Safety instead of App Permissions

Google Play’s app descriptions have a new Data Safety section now. We explain why this isn’t such great news.

  • Enoch Root

  • August 12, 2022

The Fakecalls banking Trojan makes fake calls
  • Android

Fakecalls: a talking Trojan

A Trojan that masquerades as a banking app and imitates phone conversations with bank employees.

  • Igor Golovin

  • April 11, 2022

Complete guide for iOS 15: where and how to set permissions for apps and services on iPhone and iPad.
  • iOS

Setting app permissions in iOS 15

How to set app permissions in iOS 15 for maximum privacy and security.

  • Hugh Aver

  • December 2, 2021

Some Android games ask for a bunch of unnecessary permissions. Here are five you shouldn’t give them.
  • gamers

Five permissions Android games do not need

You can refuse some permissions to greedy games, and they most definitely do not need these five.

  • Hugh Aver

  • August 4, 2020

  • Android

A photo editor with a difference

How a photo editor app from Google Play secretly signed up users for unwanted paid services.

  • Pavel Shoshin

  • June 20, 2019

  • tips

10 tips to improve your Internet privacy

Ten tips to make your private digital life really private.

  • Alex Perekalin

  • April 22, 2019

Apps that demand access to calls and SMS messaging without good reason are being kicked off Google Play. We explain what threats might arise
  • Android

New Google Play policy cuts both ways

Apps that demand access to calls and SMS messaging without good reason are being kicked off Google Play. We explain what threats might arise.

  • Leonid Grustniy

  • March 26, 2019

  • Android

App permissions in Android 8: The complete guide

Android lets you configure app permissions to protect your data and restrict access to dangerous functions. We explain how to do it and why.

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • September 24, 2018

How a seemingly harmless Android application can infect your smartphone using shared external storage.
  • DEF CON

Man-in-the-Disk: A new and dangerous way to hack Android

How a seemingly harmless Android application can infect your smartphone using shared external storage.

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • August 27, 2018

Cloak and Dagger: A hole in Android
  • Android

Cloak and Dagger: A hole in Android

How a couple of simple permissions let an application steal passwords, log user actions, and do many other nasty things.

  • Alex Perekalin

  • June 2, 2017

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