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Amber Bouman

Malicious Zoom Stealer extensions can leak your private meeting details — how to stay safe

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A new malicious browser extension has been discovered that along with two others, are designed to steal credentials, take over browsers and more. Discovered by security researchers at Koi Security, all three extensions are believed to be created by the same threat actor and put millions of Chrome, Edge and Firefox users at risk.

This most recent malware has been dubbed Zoom Stealer and its uses 18 different extensions to steal online meeting information like URLs, embedded passwords, meeting IDs, schedule times, registration status, topics and descriptions. These extensions affect up to 2.2 million Chrome, Firefox and Edge users and are specifically designed to imitate enterprise level tools for video conferencing apps like Google Meet and Zoom.

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