INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
While installing ad blocking extensions is becoming the norm for everyday web surfers, the number of imposter and malicious browser
extensions has increased alongside it, taking advantage of the less savvy users.AdGuard, a company that provides its own paid ad blocking
by millions of users.Popularity contestThese malicious extensions spam keywords and code to cheaply climb the ranks in search results for
phrases such as 'adblocker' and 'ad block' and, considering their relatively similar names and appearance to legitimate extensions, end up
with one in particular topping out at 10 million downloads.The fake extensions appear to do what it says on the tin as they use copied code
from legitimate blockers, cloning their functionality entirely
mentioned in the AdGuard report have since been taken down by Google
worth doing a bit of background research on browser extensions before installing them to be sure they have known authors and are recommended
