A report by AdGuard revealed that Google’s Chrome Web store had about 295 extensions that are hijacking browsers to insert ads in the middle of search results of Bing and Google. Most of extensions were started being pulled down by Google after being reported. Yet, at least on of those malicious extensions were installed by about 80 million users.
Malicious Chrome Extensions Insert Ads into Search Results
While the Google’s Chrome browser is appreciated for giving best browser experience, its Chrome Webstore is vested with malicious extension often. These extensions somehow sneak through Google’s tests and show up on millions of browsers sometimes. And here, a new campaign discovered by AdGuard is such incident.
I honestly tried reporting this to Google using different channels, but weeks passed and they all are still on Chrome Web Store. OK, Google, what one should do to help you remove malware from @googlechrome Web Store? https://t.co/mjE0a100ft — Andrey Meshkov (@ay_meshkov) August 4, 2020
