{"id":222561,"date":"2025-09-27T08:23:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/microsoft-edge-to-block-malicious-sideloaded-extensions"},"modified":"2025-09-27T08:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:23:30","slug":"microsoft-edge-to-block-malicious-sideloaded-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/microsoft-edge-to-block-malicious-sideloaded-extensions","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Edge to block malicious sideloaded extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-edge-to-block-malicious-sideloaded-extensions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is planning to introduce a new Edge security feature that will protect users against malicious extensions sideloaded into the web browser.<\/p>\n<p>Edge enables developers to <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-edge\/extensions\/getting-started\/extension-sideloading#locally-installing-and-running-an-extension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">install extensions locally<\/a> (also known as sideloading) for testing purposes before publishing them to the <a href=\"https:\/\/microsoftedge.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Microsoft Edge Add-ons<\/a> store by toggling the \u201cDeveloper Mode\u201d option on the Extensions management page and clicking the \u201cLoad unpacked\u201d button.<\/p>\n<p>However, users can also sideload third-party extensions that aren\u2019t distributed through official channels and aren\u2019t scanned for malware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is planning to introduce a new Edge security feature that will protect users against malicious extensions sideloaded into the web browser. Edge enables developers to install extensions locally (also known as sideloading) for testing purposes before publishing them to the Microsoft Edge Add-ons store by toggling the \u201cDeveloper Mode\u201d option on the Extensions management [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222561","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=222561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}