{"id":228093,"date":"2025-12-31T01:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/zoom-stealer-browser-extensions-harvest-corporate-meeting-intelligence"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:23:09","slug":"zoom-stealer-browser-extensions-harvest-corporate-meeting-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/zoom-stealer-browser-extensions-harvest-corporate-meeting-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Zoom Stealer browser extensions harvest corporate meeting intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zoom-stealer-browser-extensions-harvest-corporate-meeting-intelligence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly discovered campaign, which researchers call Zoom Stealer, is affecting 2.2 million Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge users through 18 extensions that collect online meeting-related data like URLs, IDs, topics, descriptions, and embedded passwords.<\/p>\n<p>Zoom Stealer is one of three browser extension campaigns that reached more than 7.8 million users over seven years and are attributed to a single threat actor tracked as DarkSpectre.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the used infrastructure, DarkSpectre is believed to be the same China-linked threat actor behind the previously documented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/ghostposter-attacks-hide-malicious-javascript-in-firefox-addon-logos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GhostPoster<\/a>, which targeted Firefox users, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/shadypanda-browser-extensions-amass-43m-installs-in-malicious-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ShadyPanda<\/a>, which delivered spyware payloads to Chrome and Edge users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered campaign, which researchers call Zoom Stealer, is affecting 2.2 million Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge users through 18 extensions that collect online meeting-related data like URLs, IDs, topics, descriptions, and embedded passwords. Zoom Stealer is one of three browser extension campaigns that reached more than 7.8 million users over seven years and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228093","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=228093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}