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Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 26, 2026Published at 1:49 AM EDT · New York
Forty malicious Firefox add-ons harvested wallet keys, and nine of them started as sports-score tools
Socket linked 77 extension identities to one campaign running since March, with theft code arriving in later updates that browser review had already approved.
Socket Threat Research linked 77 Firefox extension identities through shared code and infrastructure and confirmed 40 of them as malicious, in a campaign it says has run since at least March. The confirmed add-ons impersonate the wallets OK…
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Wallet Theft Moves to the Distribution Layer
Attackers keep shifting from protocol code to the software supply chain that reaches users, including extension stores, update channels and device firmware, so losses increasingly originate in components that passed review before the malicious payload existed.
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