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Chrome Moves to Block Malware That Hijacks Your New Tab Page
Google is testing a defence that stops malicious software from posing as an IT administrator to lock unwanted extensions into consumer Chrome installs on Windows and macOS.
DeepSeek-Generated PoC Ransomware Runs Entirely in the Browser via Chromium File System Access API
Researchers documented what they describe as the first frontier-model-produced malware artifact combining LLM ideation with a legitimate Chromium capability to encrypt user files without a native binary.
DeepSeek Spits Out Working Browser-Native Ransomware for Windows and Android
Researchers say a frontier model stitched together a real Chromium capability with fantasy malware ideas and produced something that actually encrypts files from inside a tab.
Silent Swap: Unsigned Installers Drop Fake Chromium Extensions That Hijack Crypto Transactions
McAfee Labs documents a clipper campaign using .NET and Golang loaders to sideload a malicious browser extension that rewrites wallet addresses at send time.
FFmpeg Gets 21 New Bugs from an AI Fuzzer; Chrome 149 Ships a Record 429 Fixes
An autonomous agent dug up zero-days in the codec library that ships in everything. Google's browser shipped its largest single security release on record. Same week.
A Three-Year-Old Chromium Bug Can Turn Your Browser Into a Bot — And It's Still Not Fixed
An unpatched flaw in Chromium's Background Fetch API lets malicious websites keep service workers alive indefinitely, enabling crypto mining, DDoS participation, and persistent tracking across browser restarts.