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A Glitch Is Disabling All Firefox Extensions, But A Workaround May Help

A technical error has affected Mozilla Firefox’s extensions as all the extensions or add-ons have been disabled on the browser. Users trying to use the extensions are receiving a pop-up message which reads, “Could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled.” It is suggested that users are unable to access the […]

New Chrome and Firefox extensions block their removal to hijack browsers

What you don’t see won’t hurt you, must have been the reasoning of the threat actors who created the latest batch of extensions that make these browser hijackers even more difficult to remove. The extensions redirect users away from pages where they can disable or delete them in order to drive clicks up on YouTube videos or hijack […]

Top Firefox extensions can hide silent malware using easy pre-fab tool

The fix? No patch, just destroy all extensions. Black Hat Asia The most popular Firefox extensions with millions of active users are open to attacks that can quietly compromise machines and pass Mozilla’s automated and human security tests. The extension reuse attacks exploit weaknesses in the structure of Firefox extensions such that malicious activity can be […]