Yesterday, Mozilla had extirpated 23 Firefox add-ons that pried inwards on clients in addition to sent their information to remote servers, equally affirmed past times the Bleeping PC.
The blocked add-ons fifty-fifty comprise "Web Security," the security-centric add-on amongst to a greater extent than than 220,000 users, which was flora sending users' browsing histories to a server situated inwards Deutschland in addition to remained at the centre of a contestation this week.
At the time, Mozilla engineers guaranteed that they would audit the add-on's conduct. Be that equally it may, next the underlying report, a few users announced other add-ons displaying identical information collection patterns, simply about of which sent information to the same server equally "Web Security".
"The mentioned add-on has been taken down, together amongst others afterwards I conducted a thorough audit of [the] add-ons, these add-ons are no longer available at AMO in addition to [have been] disabled inwards the browsers of users who installed them," says Mozilla Browser Engineer in addition to Add-on reviewer, Rob Wu.
Remaining truthful to its give-and-take though, afterwards a brisk test, Mozilla incapacitated the Web Security add-on inwards a Firefox instance Bleeping Computer utilized 2 days agone for tests in addition to made certain that users of whatever of the restricted add-ons volition hold upwards displayed a alert inwards this way:
A põrnikas study incorporates the rundown of each of the 23 add-ons past times their IDs, in addition to non past times their names, inwards spite of this fact Bleeping Computer has successfully tracked downward the names of simply about additional items.
Other than Web Security, other restricted add-ons comprise Browser Security, Browser Privacy, in addition to Browser Safety. These cause got been sending information to an indistinguishable server equally Web Security, situated at 136.243.163.73.
As indicated past times a rundown gave to Bleeping Computer past times Wu, other banned add-ons include:
YouTube Download & Adblocker Smarttube
Popup-Blocker
Facebook Bookmark Manager
Facebook Video Downloader
YouTube MP3 Converter & Download
Simply Search
Smarttube - Extreme
Self-Destroying Cookies
Popup Blocker Pro
YouTube - Ad block
Auto Destroy Cookies
Amazon Quick Search
YouTube Adblocker
Video Downloader
Google No Track
Quick AMZ
More than 500,000 users had atleast i of these add-ons installed within their Firefox browser.
In the alert message above, Mozilla diverts users to this page for clarifications,
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mozilla-removes-23-firefox-add-ons-that-snooped-on-users/ , where it provides the next explanation for the ban:
Sending user information to remote servers unnecessarily, in addition to potential for remote code execution. Suspicious concern human relationship activeness for multiple accounts on AMO.
