Socket Now Protects the Firefox Extension Ecosystem
Brief
Today, Socket is expanding its browser extension security coverage to Firefox, giving security teams visibility into the extensions used across their organizations and helping them identify malicious behavior, excessive permissions, data collection, suspicious infrastructure, and risky changes between versions.
Socket now proactively scans every Firefox extension listed in Mozilla's official addons. mozilla. org directory. At the time of publication, Mozilla's public API lists 97,100 Firefox-compatible extensions . We analyze those extensions and continue monitoring new releases so security teams can see when an extension's behavior changes.
Firefox Extensions Are an Enterprise Blind Spot #
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