{"id":229344,"date":"2026-01-20T01:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/fake-ad-blocker-extension-crashes-the-browser-for-clickfix-attacks"},"modified":"2026-01-20T01:29:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:29:55","slug":"fake-ad-blocker-extension-crashes-the-browser-for-clickfix-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/fake-ad-blocker-extension-crashes-the-browser-for-clickfix-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Fake ad blocker extension crashes the browser for ClickFix attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fake-sad-blocker-extension-crashes-the-browser-for-clickfix-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A malvertising campaign is using a fake ad-blocking Chrome and Edge extension named NexShield that intentionally crashes the browser in preparation for ClickFix attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks were spotted earlier this month and delivered a new Python-based remote access tool called ModeloRAT that is deployed in corporate environments.<\/p>\n<p>The NexShield extension, which has been removed from the Chrome Web Store, was promoted as a privacy-first, high-performance, lightweight ad blocker created by Raymond Hill, the original developer of the legitimate uBlock Origin ad blocker with more than 14 million users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A malvertising campaign is using a fake ad-blocking Chrome and Edge extension named NexShield that intentionally crashes the browser in preparation for ClickFix attacks. The attacks were spotted earlier this month and delivered a new Python-based remote access tool called ModeloRAT that is deployed in corporate environments. The NexShield extension, which has been removed from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}