Experts Find Malicious Cookie Stuffing Chrome Extensions Used by 1.4 Million Users

Five imposter extensions for the Google Chrome web browser masquerading as Netflix viewers and others have been found to track users' browsing activity and profit off retail affiliate programs. "The extensions offer various functions such as enabling users to watch Netflix shows together, website...

Malicious Ad Blockers for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme

Google has removed two malicious ad blockers from its Chrome Web Store after a researcher discovered they were carrying out ad fraud and deceived Chrome users by using names of legitimate and popular blockers. Researcher Andrey Meshkov from rival ad blocker maker AdGuard discovered that the...

Two Widely Used Ad Blocker Extensions for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme

Two widely used Adblocker Google Chrome extensions, posing as the original — AdBlock and uBlock Origin — extensions on Chrome Web Store, have been caught stuffing cookies in the web browser of millions of users to generate affiliate income from referral schemes fraudulently. There's no doubt web...

Two Widely Used Ad Blocker Extensions for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme

Two widely used Adblocker Google Chrome extensions, posing as the original — AdBlock and uBlock Origin — extensions on Chrome Web Store, have been caught stuffing cookies in the web browser of millions of users to generate affiliate income from referral schemes fraudulently. There's no doubt web...

Shopify: H1514 DOMXSS on Embedded SDK via Shopify.API.setWindowLocation abusing cookie Stuffing

Hi Team! I'm reporting a rather unusual DOMXSS that allows an attacker to perform a XSS attack on any Shopify apps that use the Embedded SDK. To exploit this, several techniques were chained together: Cookie Stuffing - Login CSRF - Not Open Redirect - DOMXSS. Details Inspired by 381192, I decided...

Ruby on Rails: ActiveStorage service's signed URLs can be hijacked via AppCache+Cookie stuffing trick when using GCS or DiskService

ActiveStorage tries to force content-disposition: attachment for a list of content-types, including text/html. However, response-content-type and response-content-disposition in GCS and DiskService's URLs aren't signed, which means an attacker can modify them at will. This is not the case for Azu...

Mariposa Operators Did Not Use Cookie Stuffing

According to the researcher who helped take down Mariposa, the operators who purchased the bot software from the man known as “Iserdo” and then built Mariposa, for some reason didn’t opt for the feature, which he offered for 200 euros, even though it would have increased their potential profits...

Fraudulent eBay Cookie-Code Stuffer Busted

Federal authorities are charging a Las Vegas man with marketing a so-called “cookie-stuffing” operation, enriching himself and others while defrauding eBay along the way. Read the full article. Wired...