Chrome Ad Blocker with 10M+ Installs Found with Dormant Script Injection Capability

2026-06-26T07:24:06Ze6dc7fb1d54c63d9316cf3705e02a85b2cba88aaab50f985212b463bcf739199
CI/CDactive-exploitationbrowser-extensionciscocredential-theftfortigateincident-responselantronixmacosmalwarenetworkingnpmprompt-injectionproxyrmmsupply-chainthreat-actorvulnerabilitywordpresszero-day

What happened

This feed highlights multiple high-impact security incidents and research: a popular Chrome extension (Adblock for YouTube) was found to include dormant arbitrary-JavaScript injection capability; multiple actively exploited vendor flaws in networking gear (Cisco Catalyst SD‑WAN CVE-2026-20245 and Cisco Unified CM CVE-2026-20230) and a critical Lantronix EDS5000 code-injection bug (CVE-2025-67038) are being exploited in the wild; large-scale credential-harvesting (FortiBleed) and supply-chain compromises (ShapedPlugin WordPress backdoors, malicious npm packages) were disclosed; CI/CD supply‑cha

Why it matters

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2026-06-26T07:24:06Z
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