Mozilla has banned nearly 200 malicious Firefox add-ons over the last two weeks

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Mozilla's security staff is cracking down on malicious Firefox add-ons.
Over the past two weeks, Mozilla's add-on review team has banned 197 Firefox add-ons that were caught executing malicious code, stealing user data, or using obfuscation to hide their source code.

The add-ons have been banned and removed from the Mozilla Add-on (AMO) portal to prevent new installs, but they've also been disabled in the browsers of the users who already installed them.

Mozilla has banned nearly 200 malicious Firefox add-ons over the last two weeks | ZDNet