Two Widely Used Ad Blocker Extensions for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme

Two widely used Adblocker Google Chrome extensions, posing as the original — AdBlock and uBlock Origin — extensions on Chrome Web Store, have been caught stuffing cookies in the web browser of millions of users to generate affiliate income from referra… Continue reading Two Widely Used Ad Blocker Extensions for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme

Popular Ad blockers caught ad frauding millions of Chrome users

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If you are using these two Ad Blockers we suggest removing from your browser right now or be home to extensive ongoing ad fraud.
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Bugs, Breaches, and More! – Application Security Weekly #48

    Concerns about WordPress’ new “White Screen of Death”, Google Chrome changes could ‘destroy’ ad-blockers, Mozilla is adding and ad-blocker to Firefox Focus 9.0, Websites can steal browser data via extensions APIs, a Fo… Continue reading Bugs, Breaches, and More! – Application Security Weekly #48

Researchers Defeat Most Powerful Ad Blockers, Declare a ‘New Arms Race’

Perceptual ad blockers will come out on the losing side in the war against internet advertisers and expose users to a host of new attack vectors in the process, the researchers warned. Continue reading Researchers Defeat Most Powerful Ad Blockers, Declare a ‘New Arms Race’

A week in security (July 9 – July 15)

A roundup of the security news from July 9 – July 15, including sextortion, Spectre, cryptomining, mobile malware, ICO scams and more.
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Everybody and their mother is blocking ads, so why aren’t you?

If you’re not blocking ads on your PC and mobile device, you should be! In this two-part series, we dispel some of the myths surrounding ad blocking, and cover the reasons why you should be blocking ads on your network and devices.
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