Fraudulent ad-blocking extension tricks 37,000 Google Chrome users

While Microsoft doesn"t have enough extensions for its browser, Google has too many unwanted ones. An extension that tried to mimic the popular Adblock Plus extension was not only allowed into the Chrome Web Store but it was also only taken down after 37,000 users had already downloaded it.

Making matters worse is the fact that it was only removed by Google after an anonymous cyber security account on Twitter noticed it, and brought it to the company"s attention. The extension had the same name as the official Adblock Plus - which has more than 10 million users - except for a capitalised "b". It also used the same logo and spammed the relevant keywords in its description to skew users to itself when they were searching for the real extension.