119 Edge extensions promised useful tools, instead downloaded malware

Microsoft has removed 119 extensions from the Edge add-on store which were all tied to one adware campaign. In a paper titled “ Inside StegoAd: How We Disrupted a Massive Malicious Extension Campaign ,” Microsoft researchers detail how they uncovered and dismantled a sophisticated malware campaign that abused browser extensions to infect users. According to Microsoft, the campaign involved 119 malicious browser extensions which were downloaded by 2.6 million users.