Wladimir PalantRE: https://infosec.exchange/@WPalant/113232106425106704
There is an interesting back and forth on refoorest, the story I published 18 months ago. In the aftermath of my article they got pulled from Mozilla’s and Google’s add-on stores while Microsoft just didn’t react. Later they were reinstated – no idea what kind of changes they’ve implemented for that, I didn’t notice anything relevant. Now my attention was brought to the fact that Google and Microsoft disabled that extension as malware (Google back in October already, Microsoft a few weeks ago). Yet on a quick glance I still cannot see any problematic behavior beyond what I’ve documented originally. Well, maybe them advertising Polypoly search now (“the first search engine that rewards users with weekly prizes” – yes, totally not a scam).
Side note: Opera just pulled them immediately and never reinstated from what I can tell.
https://palant.info/2024/10/01/lies-damned-lies-and-impact-hero-refoorest-allcolibri/