{"id":219410,"date":"2025-08-05T04:11:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/mozilla-warns-of-phishing-attacks-targeting-add-on-developers"},"modified":"2025-08-05T04:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:11:34","slug":"mozilla-warns-of-phishing-attacks-targeting-add-on-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/mozilla-warns-of-phishing-attacks-targeting-add-on-developers","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla warns of phishing attacks targeting add-on developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mozilla-warns-of-phishing-attacks-targeting-add-on-developers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla has warned browser extension developers of an active phishing campaign targeting accounts on its official AMO (addons.mozilla.org) repository.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla\u2019s add-on platform hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/search\/?type=extension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">over 60,000 browser extensions<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/search\/?type=statictheme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">more than 500,000 themes<\/a> used by tens of millions of users worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mozilla\u2019s advisory, these phishing emails are impersonating the AMO team and claim that the targeted developer accounts require updates to maintain access to development features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has warned browser extension developers of an active phishing campaign targeting accounts on its official AMO (addons.mozilla.org) repository. Mozilla\u2019s add-on platform hosts over 60,000 browser extensions and more than 500,000 themes used by tens of millions of users worldwide. According to Mozilla\u2019s advisory, these phishing emails are impersonating the AMO team and claim that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}