Adblock Plus can be manipulated so that hackers could potentially read the email of Gmail users, change passwords and more…
Adblock Plus is the world’s most popular free advert blocker with more than 10 million users. It has extensions that run in all the major web browsers including Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Safari. It also has a security problem: a security researcher has discovered that it’s possible for Adblock Plus filter lists to inject malicious code in several Google services including Gmail, Google Images and Google Maps.