{"id":13862,"date":"2026-06-25T10:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/malicious-edge-extension-abuses-native-messaging-as-bridge-to-malware\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:03:49","slug":"malicious-edge-extension-abuses-native-messaging-as-bridge-to-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/malicious-edge-extension-abuses-native-messaging-as-bridge-to-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious Edge extension abuses Native Messaging as bridge to malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Malicious Edge extension abuses Native Messaging as bridge to malware<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A malicious Microsoft Edge extension dubbed &#8216;Edgecution&#8217; has been used in a ransomware attack to escape the browser sandbox and deploy a Python-based backdoor. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/malicious-edge-extension-abuses-native-messaging-as-bridge-to-malware\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malicious Edge extension abuses Native Messaging as bridge to malware A malicious Microsoft Edge extension dubbed &#8216;Edgecution&#8217; has been used in a ransomware attack to escape the browser sandbox and deploy a Python-based backdoor. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-13862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}