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Microsoft Removes 119 Edge Extensions That Hid Malware in Images and Fonts
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Microsoft has shut down a long-running malicious extension operation on the Edge Add-ons store that hid its payloads inside ordinary image and font files, then woke up days after install to steal credentials and run ad fraud.
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