Thursday, April 18, 2024

Fake ad blockers in the Chrome store had over 20 million installs

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If you cant find that ad blocker you recently installed from the Chrome Web Store, you might want to do some browser spring cleaning. Google has killed five top-ranking ad blockers after AdGuard published a report revealing theyre fake extensions with extra code that harvest info on the websites you visit. They apparently send the data they collect to remote servers in order to manipulate Chromes behavior. Basically, this is a botnet composed of browsers infected with the fake adb…<...
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