The good news is that Microsoft responded quickly and removed the malicious extension from its store.
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But Microsoft has only recently been targeted, so a similar message was sent to the software giant too. Similar clones were also discovered in the extension stores maintained by Google and Mozilla, and the developer says he actually reached out to both companies in April. When the attack was complete, the extension was capable of collecting data from webpages using fake forms and then upload it to a server controller by the attacker, the dev of Dark Reader explains.
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Only that just like it happens in the case of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge extensions are prone to various infections that could end up with users being exposed.Īnd this is what happened recently when malicious code was discovered in a clone of the more famous Dark Reader extension.Ĭalled “Dark Theme for Edge,” the knockoff came with code hidden in a PNG file which powered the downloading and execution of other malicious code from a C&C server.
The new Microsoft Edge browser is based on Chromium, the same engine that powers Google Chrome, so it’s capable of running any extension published in the Chrome Web Store.īut at the same time, Microsoft also maintains its own add-on stores where the company says it’s only publishing recommended extensions that have been previously verified and validated for its browser.
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