A few days back, Microsoft has removed some extensions from the Edge Add-ons store that hijacked the Search results. Yet another extension was gone. This time, it’s an adblocker named “UBlock Adblock Plus”. According to the UBlock Origin developer, the extension is based on an old version of UBO and it starts injecting iframe into all visited web pages after blocking 999 network requests.
UBlock Adblock Plus extension is malicious
According to Gorhil findings,
- UAP is based on an old version of UBlock Origin that was released 3 years back
- The search for “unlock” in Edge Add-ons Store gives results for extensions with UBlock Adblock Plus at the top
- It is a scummy extension
- The Privacy Policy link for Extensions on the Store takes to the “Privacy Policy Generator” site
- The extension doesn’t block specific domains such as Google-Analytic, Googlee, Google Tag Manager, Purplestats due to changes in code.
- Extension developer linked Home button in extension panel to Adblock Plus website.
Gorhil tweeted about his findings of the wrongdoing of UAP to Microsoft Edge on November 5. That didn’t get their attention.
The developer tweeted about that again recently which Techdows shared with Edge Product for Enterprise and Security, Sean Lyndersay to forward to Edge add-ons Team to look into and take action.
We’ve installed this Extension yesterday in Edge. Today, we noticed it has been disabled, and Edge showing a ” the extensions contains malware” warning.
UBlock Adblock Plus has been removed and no longer exists on Edge add-ons Store.
If you have this extension installed, remove it immediately.
What’s your take on this? Are you using UBlock Adblock Plus? Let us know in the comments below.
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