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40 Malicious Firefox Extensions Pose as Web3 Products to Steal Wallet Secrets

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()2 min read1 · 1 read
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Socket found 40 malicious Firefox extensions impersonating OKX, Rabby Wallet, and TronLink to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases and private keys.

The Socket Threat Research team identified 40 malicious Firefox extensions masquerading as Web3 products including OKX, Rabby Wallet, and TronLink, part of a broader set of 77 add-ons sharing source code and infrastructure overlaps. The campaign, dubbed Offside Wallet Theft Factory, has been active since March 2026 and remains unattributed. Of the 40 confirmed malicious extensions, 15 capture recovery phrases and private keys exfiltrated through Cloudflare Workers, 13 modified Rabby Wallet builds exfiltrate serialized keyrings before local encryption, seven use attacker-controlled Supabase projects as remote switches, and five capture credentials and clipboard data via hard-coded C2. Some extensions began as sports score or utility shells before being repurposed into wallet stealers under the same Firefox ID.

Key facts
  • Wallet secrets stolen by loading fake wallet pages or baking theft into extension code
  • 37 sports score extensions share hard-coded API-Sports credential with deceptive functionality
  • Attackers rotate names, IDs, and cloned code to cheaply republish disposable extensions
  • Supabase projects serve as remote switches for serving phishing or decoy content dynamically
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From the original article

2 min read at thehackernews.com

 Ravie Lakshmanan  Aug 20, 2026 Browser Security / Cryptocurrency A set of 40 Mozilla Firefox extensions has been found to engage in cryptocurrency wallet theft by masquerading as OKX, Rabby Wallet, TronLink, and other Web3 products. According to the Socket Threat Research team, the extensions are part of a broader set of 77 browser add-ons that share source code and infrastructure overlaps.

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