{"id":239568,"date":"2026-06-25T02:18:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/malicious-edge-extension-abuses-native-messaging-as-bridge-to-malware"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:18:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:18:59","slug":"malicious-edge-extension-abuses-native-messaging-as-bridge-to-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/malicious-edge-extension-abuses-native-messaging-as-bridge-to-malware","title":{"rendered":"Malicious Edge extension abuses Native Messaging as bridge to malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/malicious-edge-extension-abuses-native-messaging-as-bridge-to-malware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A malicious Microsoft Edge extension dubbed \u2018Edgecution\u2019 has been used in a ransomware attack to escape the browser sandbox and deploy a Python-based backdoor.<\/p>\n<p>Access to the local system is obtained by leveraging the Chrome Native Messaging protocol that allows browser extensions to interact with native desktop applications, such as a password manager communicating with the extension to fill in web forms.<\/p>\n<p>This allows the browser to launch the native application as a separate process and communicates with it over standard input\/output data streams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A malicious Microsoft Edge extension dubbed \u2018Edgecution\u2019 has been used in a ransomware attack to escape the browser sandbox and deploy a Python-based backdoor. Access to the local system is obtained by leveraging the Chrome Native Messaging protocol that allows browser extensions to interact with native desktop applications, such as a password manager communicating with [\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-239568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239568","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=239568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}