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Google fights spammy extensions with new Chrome Web Store policy

The policies are specifically meant to fight spam, but they outlaw tactics taken by malicious extensions as well, including fake reviews.

They were posing as crypto wallets in order to rip off users’ private keys and mnemonic phrases and drain real wallets. Google’s yanked them.

How Sergey Denisoff described his early ad-buying ventures: buying BS popup traffic and reselling it to buyers demanding BS traffic.

It’s showtime: Finally out of beta comes the browser that promises privacy, anonymity and cryptocurrency in exchange for your eyeballs.

An old piece of malware is storming the WordPress community, enabling its perpetrators to take control of sites and inject code of their choosing.

A malvertising campaign has evolved to give hackers control of entire sites.

The defendants allegedly pulled in over $1.3 million over the course of about six years for unnecessary and undelivered tech support.

A Ukrainian and his gang allegedly smeared malvertising for 4.5 years and tried to rent out a botnet full of infected computers.

If you own an iOS device and use the Chrome browser, you may have encountered some strange-looking pop-up ads in the past week.

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