A coordinated campaign of 23 seemingly legitimate Chrome extensions tracked as “SearchJack” has quietly hijacked the default search settings of roughly 758,000 users, routing queries through operator-controlled monetization middleware before returning results. At first glance the extensions promise useful features satellite imagery, productivity tools, news readers, maps but their true purpose is affiliate search monetization, […]

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Mayura Kathir

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