Investigating and Safeguarding the Web Browsers from Malicious Web Extensions

Browsers are among the most popular ways to go to the company and personal internet resources. The usage of browsers to retrieve confidential material is constantly increasing as more services migrate to the cloud. Hackers to take full advantage of this frequently use malicious browser extensions. Monitoring the usage of extensions throughout an organization is an important aspect of any security program. The malicious extensions are hackers' newest effort to conceal malware in recent version add-ons. If the virus is operating in a browser with a lot of web development extensions enabled, it will disable itself to avoid being caught. The installed extensions are coded intelligently and they do not start acting maliciously until days after they have been installed, this makes it difficult for security tools to detect them. In this article, a novel approach for the investigation of malicious web browser extensions is proposed. Moreover, this research paper also highlights the safeguarding methods from malicious web browser extension attacks. Citation: Keshav Kaushik, Sakshi Aggarwal, Shambhavi Pandey, Shashank Mudgal, Saksham Garg. "Investigating and Safeguarding the Web Browsers from Malicious Web Extensions." Global Research and Development Journal For Engineering 6.10 (2021): 5 - 13.