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 ...

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 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 ...

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 phony AdBlock Plus extension was listed in Chrome’s official Web Store up until today, with more than 30,000 people having downloaded it. Anonymous cybersecurity personality @SwiftOnSecurity called ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

Adblock Plus is the world's most popular free advert blocker with more than 10 million users. It has extensions that run in all the major web browsers including Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Safari ...

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 ...