Predator Search

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First seenOct 29, 2026
Last mentioned2d ago

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319 Chrome extensions with 13.4 million installs hijacked searches

Socket says operators swapped the default search engine and proxied queries for Bing and Yahoo referral payments; most listings are now gone.

BleepingComputerupdated Oct 30, 15:25 UTC · 1d agofirst Oct 29, 16:10 UTC · 2d agoMalware 4 sources1

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Googlevendor · 1
Socketorganization · 1
Chromeproduct · 1
Chrome Web Storeproduct · 1
SecuryBrowsemalware · 1
Bing-Searchmalware · 1

Entities are extracted by the model from each article. First seen Oct 29, 2026, last mentioned 2d ago. Watching keeps it in this browser only (no account); the watchlist page and dashboard alerts use it.