If you’ve received emails that appear to come from Mozilla, you should avoid clicking on any links within those emails . According to a Mozilla blog post , there’s an extensive phishing campaign going on right now to trick you into providing your login details.
The most common phrase used by the hackers is “Your Mozilla Add-ons account requires an update to continue accessing developer features,” or some variation of that, reports BleepingComputer .
This is just another in a line of cybersecurity headaches for Mozilla, who has recently been battling cryptocurrency wallet scams in Firefox’s add-on repository —a problem that won’t quit even after Mozilla began auto-screening for such scams .
It’s a dangerous time to be a web user, with all kinds of phishing scams happening ever