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Password-Stealing Extension Discovered on Mozilla Add-ons Repository Mozilla has banned a Firefox extension that stole users' login credentials for over a month from its add-ons repository. A legit extension was also blacklisted for because of a critical vulnerability that allowed for remote code execution.In an announcement posted on its official Add-ons blog, Mozilla revealed t... 14 July 2010 04:01 GMT Mozilla Retracts Malware Accusations Against Firefox Extension Mozilla announced that one of the experimental extensions named as being infected in a recent AMO security advisory was in fact clean. A more thorough investigation revealed that detection of malware in version 4.0 of Sothink Video Downloader was a false positive.Last week, Mozilla's Add-ons Team issued a securi... 11 February 2010 08:05 GMT Infected Extensions Discovered on Mozilla's Add-Ons Repository The AMO (addons.mozilla.org) team has announced on its official blog that two experimental Firefox extensions were removed from the repository after they were found to be infected with malware. The add-ons had some 4,600 combined downloads.According to Mozilla, version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader was infected... 5 February 2010 10:52 GMT