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ATTENTION! Check if you were affected by malware clones
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Quote: Several malicious Dark Reader's copies were created, thousands of users were affected. Follow this guide to learn how to avoid malware extensions.

Attack of the Clones
An interesting malware technique was revealed recently. Multiple Dark Reader copies with similar names and additional code were removed from Firefox Add-ons.

malicious code was hidden and encoded in a *.png file. In 5 days it downloaded and executed another code, that was collecting data from web pages using fake forms, and later sent this data to a remote server.

It turned out that similar attacks happen periodically and affect Chrome and Firefox users.

Continue reading here: 
https://darkreader.org/blog/attention/
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