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Hundreds of fake Chrome VPN extensions route traffic through a proxy

More than 737 browser extensions published on the Chrome Web Store impersonated well-known VPN and proxy services while routing users' tr…

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More than 737 browser extensions published on the Chrome Web Store impersonated well-known VPN and proxy services while routing users' traffic through SOCKS5 proxies operated by a single provider. [...]

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