Is Your Browser Extension a Botnet Backdoor? — Krebs on Security
Mozilla designed to add functionality or customization to one’s browsing experience. Some of these extensions have garnered hundreds of thousands or even millions of users. But here’s the rub: As an extension’s user base grows, maintaining them with software updates and responding to user support requests tends to take up an inordinate amount of the author’s time. Yet extension authors have few options for earning financial compensation for their work. So when a company comes along and offers to buy the extension — or pay the author to silently include some extra code — that propo...
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