Fake ad blockers in the Chrome store had over 20 million installs

Fake ad blockers have been fooling people since at least 2017 — last year, 37,000 people installed a fake AdBlock Plus created by what SwiftOnSecurity called a “fraudulent developer who clones popular name and spams keywords.” Like that AdBlock Plus impostor, the ones AdGuard discovered also spammed keywords to get to the top of the …

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