Makers of Copyfish OCR software get taken on wild ride after code for its Chrome extension is stolen. A popular free optical character recognition (OCR) extension for web browsers called Copyfish was ...

On Friday, an unknown hacker hijacked the Copyfish Chrome extension from its original authors and pushed an update that inserted ads in people's web pages. The hack took place because one of the ...

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A popular Chrome extension for Copyfish fell prey to hackers this week to churn out adware and spam to users. iStock Copyfish, the free and popular optical character recognition (OCR) extension for ...

Twice in five days, developers of Chrome browser extensions have lost control of their code after unidentified attackers compromised the Google Chrome Web Store accounts used to issue updates. The ...

The list of compromised Chrome extensions that hijack traffic and substitute advertisements on victims’ browsers grows. The number of compromised Chrome browser extensions is growing beyond the ...

EXCLUSIVE — Google's security team has sent out warnings via email to Chrome extension developers after many of them have been the targets of phishing attacks, some of which have been successful and ...

08:41, Wed, Aug 2, 2017 Updated: 08:41, Wed, Aug 2, 2017 Google Chrome browser add-on Copyfish has been compromised. Cybercriminals managed to compromise the Chrome Web Store account of German ...

The road to good intentions is paved by malware.

Browser Firefox addon "Copyfish"OCR(Optical Character Recognition) function can be added to convert movie subtitles, site logos, character images, etc. into character code format. Since it is possible ...