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Re:Someone is distributing fake versions of my app with malware by cenal on Friday April 10, 2015 @05:13PM (#9357144)
Have you contacted Mozilla to see what they recommend in this type of scenario?
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Re:Someone is distributing fake versions of my app with malware by Animats on Friday April 10, 2015 @05:58PM (#9357335)
Yes. See

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1152966

I put this on HN because somewhere there's probably somebody who's detected a security problem related to this and is trying to track it down.

A likely possibility is that it's some malware that's already on the Firefox blacklist[1], and they're trying to get past the blacklist by stealing the identity of a valid add-on.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/

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