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AMO Blocklisting malicious Codec add-ons

Posted on January 22, 2026 by The Guru

From the Mozilla Add-ons Blog:

A group of malicious add-ons going by various names like Codec, Codec-C and Codec-M have been added to the add-on blocklist. This is a new type of block that covers multiple add-on ids, so we want to cover all of our bases…

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