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May 30, 2022 · Information Security
Mozilla Blocks Malicious Firefox Add-ons “Bypass” and “Bypass XM” and Details Security Risks and Updates
Mozilla’s security team has blocked the malicious Firefox add-ons “Bypass” and “Bypass XM”, which abused the browser’s proxy API to hijack updates and bypass paywalls, affecting hundreds of thousands of users, and introduced new fallback mechanisms and a “Proxy Failover” extension in Firefox 93.
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