The fake Adblock Plus Chrome extension attracted over 37,000 users. When he's not battling bugs and robots in Helldivers 2, Michael is reporting on AI, satellites, cybersecurity, PCs, and tech policy.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the developers behind free desktop ad blocker, Adblock Ultimate, says he is "surprised and confused" after a trademark complaint from the company behind the popular ad blocker, Adblock Plus, ...

A researcher has uncovered five malicious ad-blocker extensions on the Chrome Web Store that were installed by 20 million Chrome users before Google removed them. The bogus ad blockers were discovered ...

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 ...

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 ...