Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware

Theregister | 02-12-2025 08:15am |

And some are still active in the Microsoft Edge store A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people's data to servers in China. And, according to Koi researchers, five of the extensions with more than 4 million installs are still live in the Edge marketplace....

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