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Researchers find a cluster of 295 Chrome extensions, with more than 80M users, that inserted ads into Google and Bing results; Google is now removing some

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @adguard and @josephmenn . Thanks: @roavingxss Tweets: @adguard : 80M people scammed by fake ad blockers in @googlechrome Web Store. The worst thing is, there's nothing new: malicious extensions either reappear or don't get removed at all. Why? We're trying to find answers: https://adguard.com/... Joseph Menn / @josephmenn : All continues to be not well in the Chrome Web Store. https://www.zdnet.com/... Thanks: @roavingxss

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  • @adguard @adguard on x
    80M people scammed by fake ad blockers in @googlechrome Web Store. The worst thing is, there's nothing new: malicious extensions either reappear or don't get removed at all. Why? We're trying to find answers: https://adguard.com/...
  • @josephmenn Joseph Menn on x
    All continues to be not well in the Chrome Web Store. https://www.zdnet.com/...