Security firm Socket said it identified 16 fake browser extensions impersonating Rabby and OKX Wallet on Firefox. According to the company, Mozilla had already unpublished the add-ons by Oct. 5. Socket also warned that taking the extensions down does not fully solve the problem for affected users. If a wallet’s recovery phrase was exposed before the add-ons were removed, deleting the malicious extension alone does not make that wallet safe again. The case centers on fake wallet extensions distributed through Firefox’s add-on ecosystem and highlights the risk tied to exposed seed phrases. The report, cited by The Defiant, did not add other remediation details in the available text, but it made one point clear: removal from the browser store is not enough once recovery credentials have been compromised.
Security firm Socket said it found 16 fake browser extensions on Firefox posing as Rabby and OKX Wallet.
According to Socket, Mozilla had unpublished the add-ons by Oct. 5. The firm said that step does not secure wallets whose recovery phrases were already exposed.
Fake wallet extensions identified
The issue involved extensions impersonating Rabby and OKX Wallet on Firefox. Socket put the number of fake extensions at 16.
Mozilla had already removed them
Socket said Mozilla had unpublished the add-ons by Oct. 5.
Exposure of recovery phrases remains the key risk
The firm warned that removing the extensions does not make affected wallets safe if their recovery phrases had already been exposed.
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