Weighing in on the tweet, Raymond Hill, the developer of uBlock Origin, said: “I’m aware of this. Read more of the latest browser security news Screenshots posted on Twitter this week show that a search result for ‘uBlock Origin’ – a web extension which has more than 10,000 users on Chrome alone – appears below multiple add-ons, some of which, it has been claimed, appear malicious.Ī test on the Chrome Web Store performed by The Daily Swig confirmed that in a search query for ‘uBlock Origin’, the plugin appears third – below rival applications ‘NBlocker’ and ‘Adtrooper adblocker’. This is according to the developers of two popular ad-blocking extensions available on the site. Suspicious browser extensions are relying on manipulating search results on the Google Chrome Web Store to rank higher than their legitimate counterparts. Privacy add-ons uBlock Origin and AdGuard are among the affected apps
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