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| 29 Sep 2026 | |
| Written by Gabi Gerber | |
| Attacks & Threats |
| Hacking Topics, Security Operation Center |
Millions of people have downloaded infostealers disguised as legitimate ad-blocking browser extensions, in part because Google has provided them with seals of approval on the Chrome Web Store.
That's the word from Bay Area Labs, which uncovered one such app, "Poper Blocker," lurking in the Chrome Web Store. Poper Blocker has every trapping of a legitimate, mainstream app: It sports a big, green "Featured" badge, and its developer has earned a trustworthy "Established Publisher" status with Google. It enjoys a 4.8 out of 5 star rating from more than 81,000 reviewers. It claims more than 2 million active users. In short, no user could spot anything untoward about this program were they to come across it while shopping for an ad blocker. More here
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Microsoft seized 50 websites and disabled more than 150 domains as part of a coordinated disruption effort against a phi… More...
A process parameter-poisoning technique evades EDR by injecting code into process initialization structures without usin… More...
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