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Millions of people spied on by malicious browser extensions in Chrome and Edge

ID: f07d45cb-8bf3-5b3a-a4d4-1fd1f96403bb

STIX ID: report--f07d45cb-8bf3-5b3a-a4d4-1fd1f96403bb

Feed Name: Malwarebytes Blog

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2025-07-09

Date Updated: 2026-04-28

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Executive Summary: A widespread campaign abused 18 Chrome and Edge extensions (over 2 million installs) as sleeper agents to track browsing (URLs + unique IDs) and perform C2-driven browser hijacks that redirect users to fake update pages or malware, with extension IDs and malicious domains listed and most extensions now removed from the stores.

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