Malicious Ad Blockers for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme

‘AdBlock’ and ‘uBlock’ impersonate legitimate extensions but instead engage in cookie stuffing to defraud affiliate marketing programs, a researcher has found. Continue reading Malicious Ad Blockers for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme

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