Mozilla Warns of Phishing Campaign Targeting Firefox Add-On Developers
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10mo ago· 3 min readenNews
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Summary
Mozilla has issued a warning about a phishing campaign targeting Firefox add-on developers, urging them to be cautious with emails disguised as account update prompts from Mozilla or AMO. The phishing emails aim to trick developers into clicking malicious links under the threat of losing access to developer features. Mozilla has not disclosed the motivations behind the campaign.
Key quotes
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The phishing campaign usually lures devs into clicking through a malicious link to update their account.
Failure to do so, or so the crims claim, would result in the dev losing access to developer features.
: Devs told to exercise 'extreme caution' with emails disguised as account update prompts
