In this photo illustration, Google Chrome logos are displayed on a cell phone in Austin, Texas, Nov. 21, 2024. Brandon Bell/Getty Images
More than 2 million users of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have fallen victim to what cybersecurity researchers at Koi Security call a “sophisticated” malware campaign—one of the largest browser hijacking operations the cybersecurity company has ever uncovered.
The campaign—dubbed RedDirection—centered on a set of 18 malicious browser extensions that available for download from both Google’s Chrome Web Store and Microsoft’s Edge Add-ons, according to a July 8 Koi Security report. All of the identified extensions, which are listed at the bottom of this article along with their ID numbers, have since been removed from both platforms.
