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October 29th, 2026 at 4:10 PMChrome extensions with 13.4 million installs caught hijacking searches
A massive search-hijacking campaign involving 319 Chrome extensions with a combined 13.4 million reported installations redirected users' searches through tracking servers to generate advertising revenue from Bing and Yahoo. [...]
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