Be careful with those browser extensions. A phony one pretending to be from Adblock Plus recently managed to sneak into the Google Chrome Web Store and attract over 37,000 users. Ironically, the fake ...

Be careful with those browser extensions. A phony one pretending to be from Adblock Plus recently managed to sneak into the Google Chrome Web Store and attract over 37,000 users. Ironically, the fake ...

Android is often criticized for having malware that gets passed Google's automated Play Store bouncer, but it is far from being the only Google-made platform to have such problems. A recent incident ...

MANILA, Philippines – A fake version of the web’s most popular ad-blocking software, Adblock Plus, recently made its way to the Chrome Web Store before it was taken down by Google. The fake version ...

Google has removed a malicious extension from its Chrome Web Store that posed as the popular AdBlock Plus ad blocker but forcibly opened new tabs to show ads to users. As the researcher points out in ...

Adblock Plus is one of the most popular extensions for Chrome with more than 10 million users and 150,000 glowing reviews. However, a spammer was recently able to ...

We're often assured that programs on official online stores are safe, but there are times when malicious software can slip through the cracks and appear as legitimate products. The latest example ...

A fake AdBlock Plus extension made its way to Chrome’s official Web Store and was downloaded 37,000 times by users across the globe. Google removed the listing after it was spotted by a security ...

If you use Adblock Plus with Chrome and downloaded the extension pretty recently, you may want to check what you've installed. Apparently, a fake Adblock Plus extension made it through Google's ...

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