A fake adblocker Chrome Extension Chrome has been downloaded 37 times from the official website worldwide. And after searching for a security researcher on Twitter, Google removed it from their list.
According to the Android Authority report, this extension is just like the original extension. And so it is possible to fool so many users. But it is astonishing that how this extension exceeds Google's Verification process. And Adblock is a very popular extension of Chrome Web Store and has 10 million users.
It is unclear whether this adblocker has fake malware. So those who have downloaded the most recently adblockers are advised to uninstall it now. Google Chrome has been facing problems for a long time. In the year 2015 the company has blocked extensions not listed by users Chrome Web Store.
However, the issue of fake extension downloading is again subject to users' concerns.
