The addition of fake Adblock Plus contains malicious software that infects thousands of users

over the past few hours, the company has been surprised by the company's monitoring of a fake version of Adblock Plus, the Google Chrome Web browser, on the official Google Chrome Web Store. This version contains malicious software that infected thousands of users.

As noted by the security company "SwiftOnSecurity", the official online store Chrome Web Store contains a fake version of the addition Adblock Plus developed by the developer in the integration of this store without the attention of Google and without the attention of users, as the number of users of the real version To 10 million users, this version reached the number of users to 37.000.

Despite the size of the large penetration of Google systems to accept the addition of forged, but the company has deleted this extension addressed to users of the browser Google Chrome from its official store after the disclosure of SwiftOnSecurity for this issue, but the problem was that the addition contained malicious software with advertising goals, Ad windows, which is contrary to the principle of work Adblock Plus application.

On the other hand, questions are being raised about how it was used to bypass Google's stringent security standards before approving apps and extensions in its official store.