Closed Bug 1362553 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Malicious addon "privacy2browsing" needs blocklisting

Categories

(Toolkit :: Blocklist Policy Requests, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Blocklist Policy Requests
Version:
55 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: seburo3, Assigned: jorgev)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0
Build ID: 20170505100657

Steps to reproduce:

The suspect site https://m.privacy2browsing.com/ext/ features a blue "Install Now" to install a suspect add-on for Firefox.
It looks like the add-on hijacks search queries sent to popular engines (Google, Ask, etc.) and redirects them to their own, presumably to gain referral credit. It doesn't appear to do anything else useful. The installation page is also very misleading in its presentation.
Assignee: nobody → jorge
Status: UNCONFIRMED → ASSIGNED
Ever confirmed: true
Add-on ID: @safesearchscoutee
The block has been staged. Andreas, please confirm and publish.
Flags: needinfo?(awagner)
The block is now live.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(awagner)
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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