Malicious GhostPoster browser extensions found with 840,000 installs

Published on January 17, 2026

Another set of 17 malicious extensions linked to the GhostPoster campaign has been discovered in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge stores, where they accumulated a total of 840,000 installations. [...]

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