20 Million users have installed fake ad blockers on google chrome

Millions of users worldwide want to block advertising on Google Chrome. For this they use advertising blockers, with Ad Blocker as the best known. The problem is that many fake ad blockers have been detected recently, which are malicious. Some twenty million users have installed them in their browser.

20 million users have installed fake ad blockers on Google Chrome

A total of five have been removed, all of them malicious. All of them available as an extension in the extensions store in Google Chrome. They were dedicated to collecting information from the users who installed them.

Malicious ad blockers in Google Chrome

These ad blockers have been installed by millions of users worldwide. In this way, your data has been collected by these extensions. Since they used a code that allowed them to store the information of the web pages that users visited. In addition to obtaining passwords and credit card information. Luckily, Google Chrome has acted quickly and removed them all immediately.

The five malicious extensions are as follows, so you know what they are if you have them installed in your browser:

• AdRemover for Google Chrome ™ uBlock Plus Adblock ProHD for YouTube ™ Webutation

Five quite popular names that some of you surely know or even have installed in your browser. Luckily, they are already part of the past and are not available. Although users are advised to be alert, because it is very possible that new extensions of this type will emerge.

This problem shows that Google Chrome has to do more to improve security in its extension store.

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