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Security researchers at LayerX Security have uncovered a campaign involving malicious VPN and ad-blocking extensions designed to steal sensitive user data. The campaign is persistent in its attempts to resurface, even after it has been taken down previously (more than once).
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Last month, researchers at Koi Security published a detailed analysis of a malicious Firefox extension they dubbed GhostPoster – a browser-based malware leveraging an uncommon and stealthy payload delivery method: steganography within a PNG icon file.
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LayerX Research identified a coordinated set of Chrome browser extensions marketed as ChatGPT enhancement and productivity tools. In practice, however, these extensions are meant to steal users’ ChatGPT identities. The campaign consists of at least 16 distinct extensions develope
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Contributors: Dar Kahllon As generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok become part of everyday workflows, attackers are increasingly exploiting their popularity to distribute malicious browser extensions. In this research, we uncovered a coordinated campaign of C
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LayerX security researchers have uncovered a campaign of at least 12 interrelated browser extensions that masquerade as TikTok video downloaders but in reality track user activity and collect data. The extensions share a common codebase and are all clones or lightly modified vers
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Learn how threat actors use crypto scam extensions that impersonate high-profile investors to steal wallets via evasive split-behavior phishing infrastructure.
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Our research uncovered a campaign of 32 malicious browser extensions that uses remote configs to spy on 9,800+ users and hijack browsing activity.
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Akamai research reveals CodeAudit AI VS Code extension secretly monitors activity, exfiltrates source code, and exposes sensitive data over unencrypted HTTP.