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Reading and changing all your data on the websites you visit.

While reports indicate that the add-ons do nothing more than hijack legitimate searches, the privileges they require provide the possibility of doing much worse. Search engine redirections are typically part of a scheme to generate fraudulent revenue by ginning up ad clicks, and that's what's likely happening here. The problem is that anyone can submit them, and Google, Mozilla, and now Microsoft haven’t come up with a system that adequately vets the authenticity of the people submitting them or the safety of the code.

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Readers should remember, however, that legitimate developers can't be held responsible when their apps or add-ons are spoofed.Īlong with Android apps, browser extensions are one of the weak links in the online security chain.

Neither of the remaining two legitimate developers of the real extensions responded to a request for comment. NordVPN, meanwhile, issued a statement that said in part: “We noticed this fraudulent extension on Friday and immediately took action to have it removed.” “It is not uncommon for popular, trusted brands like TunnelBear to be spoofed by malicious actors.” The real AdGuard VPN, for its part said issued a statement from CEO Andrey Meshkov that said: “We are taking action to have these removed from both platforms and investigating the matter with both Google and Microsoft,” a TunnelBear representative said. “We are taking action to have these removed from both platforms and investigating the matter with both Google and Microsoft,” a TunnelBear representative said. It said there's an extension in the Chrome Web Store that's also fraudulent.

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The maker of the legitimate TunnelBear software and browser extensions told me that the add-on hosted in Microsoft's official Edge store is a fake.

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“Once I have any news from them, I will update this thread accordingly.” “The team just updated me to let me know that anyone seeing these injections should turn off their extensions and let me know if you continue to see them at that point,” the person using the handle MSFTMissy wrote. His account was consistent with images and accounts from other forum participants.

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“It's easy enough to see it happening-if you install one of the affected extensions in Edge, open dev tools, and press the ‘sources’ tab, you'll see something that shouldn't be there like or cdn77.” “I had the tunnelbear extension installed, but I removed it once I figured out it was causing the issue,” Laurence Norah, a photographer at Finding the Universe, told me by email. That means that while the extensions bear the names of legitimate developers, they are, in fact, imposters with no relation.įloating Player - Picture-in-Picture Mode All of them are knockoffs of legitimate add-ons. Often, the searches use cdn77org for connectivity.Īfter discovering the redirections weren’t an isolated incident, participants in this Reddit discussion winnowed the list of suspects down to five.

Over the past several days, people in website forums have complained of the Google searches being redirected to oksearchcom when they use Edge. On that issue, it’s still up to you to decide whether you trust the company.For years, Google and Mozilla have battled to keep abusive or outright malicious browser extensions from infiltrating their official repositories. The one thing this audit didn’t address were the contents of TunnelBear’s privacy policy, such as its no-logging claim for users’ browsing habits. TunnelBear took a big step by publicly releasing its security audits-most notably the 2016 one with all its problems. Can you trust the company you’re using to protect your privacy and provide you with a secure product? With some VPNs this isn’t such an easy question to answer, especially if you can’t even verify who’s running the company. Why this matters: One of the critical issues surrounding a VPN, or any software really, is trust. The others were medium to low threats that did not require urgent fixes.įor more information about VPNs, see PCWorld’s article on best VPNs of 2017. During the shorter redo this summer, Cure53 said it found 13 other problems, but only one was of “high” severity. TunnelBear says it wasn’t proud of those results, but at least the vulnerabilities were discovered.