OTX Threat: Chrome and Firefox Extensions Posing as Free VPNs Add Clipboard Stealers via Malicious Updates

Malicious browser extensions distributed through Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons marketplaces posed as free VPN services while secretly stealing clipboard data. The Chrome extension, with 146 users, and Firefox extension, with 3,499 users, initially functioned as proxy tools but later incorporated clipboard theft through staged updates. Chrome versions 1.1 onwards and Firefox version 1.3.3 on