Dossier
adware campaign
Coverage of adware campaign in the Nexus archive.
- 119 Edge extensions promised useful tools, instead downloaded malware
Microsoft removed 119 Edge extensions linked to a malware campaign called StegoAd, which infected 2.6 million users by initially providing useful tools before secretly downloading malware. The malware stole credentials and used steganography to hide code in images, with some extensions reusing names of legitimate tools to gain trust.