{
  "id": 12841703,
  "title": "16 Malicious Firefox Extensions Pose as Rabby and OKX Wallets to Steal Recovery Phrases",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/16-malicious-firefox-extensions-pose-as-rabby-and-okx-wallets-to",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-08T09:46:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/16-malicious-firefox-extensions-pose-as.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 16 malicious Mozilla Firefox extensions that are capable of stealing cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases and private keys. \"The extensions masquerade as wallet portals, desktop utilities, and browser tools, but their code intercepts recovery phrases and private keys during wallet import flows and attempts to send those secrets to",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}