– AdRemover for Google Chrome (10M+ users)

– HD for YouTube (400K+ users)

If any of the above extension have been installed in your Chrome browser, chances are you could have been hacked.

Andrey Meshkov, a security researcher and co-founder of Adguard discovered these 5 malicious chrome extensions that have a combined 20M+ users. According to Andrey these extensions are copycuts of some well recognized extensions.

“All the extensions I’ve highlighted are simple rip-offs with a few lines of code and some analytics code added by the authors,” Meshkov says.

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