An attacker named a third-party web app 'Google Docs,' which tricked users into giving the app permission to access their address book and Gmail. Still, we saw hackers return to this same naming trick in a widespread phishing attack earlier this year that spoofed Google itself. The company said at the time that it saw a 75 percent drop in support requests for uninstalling unwanted extensions when it made this policy official for Windows users. That move was meant to address concerns that users were downloading malicious software. The company admitted as much in 2015 when it officially blocked Windows and Mac users from downloading Chrome extensions not hosted on the Chrome Web Store. Google used to have a major problem with malicious Chrome extensions. We don't know if the extension was malicious or what data it might have compromised. While the listing is no longer live, the knockoff developers still managed to convince 37,000 people to download it. More than 10 million people use the legitimate service. In this case, a developer going by “Adblock Plus” intentionally created an extension that looks just like the legitimate Adblock Plus, which is developed by. ZtY5WpSgLt- SwiftOnSecurity October 9, 2017 Google allows 37,000 Chrome users to be tricked with a fake extension by fraudulent developer who clones popular name and spams keywords.

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