UPDATE: Article retracted.
This article described an adware-supported browser extension that was caught distributing malware on the side. The paper and presentation on which this article was based have been withdrawn from the Virus Bulletin security conference after the discovery of mistakes in the underlying research.
ZDNet has decided to retract this article until corrections are issued to the original research.
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