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 ...

A fraudulent Adblock Plus extension managed to bypass Google's verification process and became available for a certain period on the official Web Store, according to reports. It was eventually pulled ...

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 ...

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 ...

eyeo, the company behind the popular browser-based ad block product Adblock Plus, is no stranger to controversy. Which is just as well given its new “passion project”: A browser add-on that labels ...

The creators of Adblock Plus, eyeo, have an uncommon solution to the fake news scourge: rely on one of the tech industry's biggest buzzwords. They've introduced a beta Chrome extension, Trusted News, ...

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The company announced the initiative yesterday. It hasn’t gone down well with all users, many of whom will now begin to see adverts on pages that the extension previously stripped bare. The ...

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 ...

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 ...