Chrome Extension Caught Hijacking Users’ Browsers
If you use Chrome, please ensure you don’t have this extension installed and note that at least one other extension—among several others suspected—has been taken down. See source article for the full list. Emphasis added:
Google has intervened and banned the Better History Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store after users reported that it started taking over their browsing experience and redirecting them to pages showing ads. […]
Users reported this happening since March 23, 2016. Confronted by angry users on the extension’s GitHub repo, the extension’s original author revealed that he sold the extension to an unnamed company two months ago, since version 3.9.5. […]
From the other extensions suspected of malicious behavior, at the time of writing, only the User-Agent Switcher extension has been taken down. […]