Oct 16, 2026 · 8 min · 7 segments
Browser extensions, the small add-ons that block ads, save coupons, or unlock right-click, run inside the one program where your whole life passes through: your browser. Many can read every page you…
People installed them from the official stores, which checked them at the time and found nothing wrong, because there was nothing wrong.
Roughly 14 of the 19 had been built by the attackers from the start as sleeper tools, earning trust and installs before the payload arrived.
It grabbed the tokens that cryptocurrency wallets use to prove who you are, which is how it drained wallets.
And because the extensions still did their original job, nobody had reason to uninstall.
and the update arrived silently, the way extension updates always do, about two years past.
People installed them from the official stores, which checked them at the time and found nothing wrong, because there was nothing wrong.
Roughly 14 of the 19 had been built by the attackers from the start as sleeper tools, earning trust and installs before the payload arrived.
It grabbed the tokens that cryptocurrency wallets use to prove who you are, which is how it drained wallets.
And because the extensions still did their original job, nobody had reason to uninstall.
and the update arrived silently, the way extension updates always do, about two years past.
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