On Wednesday, Swift on Security put out the word about two more phony AdBlock Plus extensions in the store, one falsely claiming more than 10 million downloads. “This app was able to slip through the cracks, but we’ve identified the reason and are addressing it.” “After reviewing the issue in more detail, we found that a number of other similar instances of this campaign were detected and that our systems had successfully prevented them from reaching users,” Google said. Google posted an update to the Chromium forum on Monday. 22 and made good use of dozens of keywords to entice users to the landing page on the Chrome Web Store.
The plugin had been available since at least Sept. Google allows 37,000 Chrome users to be tricked with a fake extension by fraudulent developer who clones popular name and spams keywords. The popular Swift on Security Twitter feed chronicled the mess starting Tuesday when the account said an extension posing as AdBlock Plus and downloaded already close to 38,000 times, was still available on the Chrome Web Store. The incident ramped up again one day later when the developers were able to get two other shady plugins past Google’s defenses before those were removed. It will be interesting how Google gives that same treatment to Windows, Mac, and Linux.Google scrambled this week to remove a malicious Chrome extension from its store and users’ machines after a popular Twitter account disclosed the issue publicly. PWAs are cross-platform and cross-browser, while Chrome apps are obviously limited to Google's browser and use proprietary Chrome APIs.Ĭhrome on Android already supports installing PWAs, even giving them their own icon in the app drawer. Progressive Web Apps and Chrome apps are both designed to make web apps fit in more with native desktop applications, but the similarities end there. We have been investigating ways to simplify the transition for developers that depend on exclusive Chrome App APIs, and will continue to focus on this - in particular the Sockets, HID and Serial APIs. We also recognize that Desktop PWAs will not replace all Chrome App capabilities. Timelines are still rough, but this will be a number of months later than the originally planned deprecation timeline of "early 2018". In order to enable a more seamless transition from Chrome Apps to the web, Chrome will not fully remove support for Chrome Apps on Windows, Mac or Linux until after Desktop PWA installability becomes available in 2018. Once this functionality ships (roughly targeting mid-2018), users will be able to install web apps to the desktop and launch them via icons and shortcuts similar to the way that Chrome Apps can be installed today. The Chrome team is now working to enable Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to be installed on the desktop.
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