Spy in the open tab: free browser extensions are a corporate security nightmare

By Stephanos Spyrou

Picture a fairly ordinary Tuesday. Someone in your office is fighting a PDF that will not convert, or a clause that needs translating before a call in twenty minutes. They search, find a free browser extension with a cheerful icon and a few thousand reviews, and click “Add to Chrome.” No password prompt appears. No red warning from IT. The whole thing takes four seconds, and because nothing scary happened on screen, the brain quietly files it under harmless....