"To prevent additional users from being impacted by new add-on submissions misusing the proxy API, we paused on approvals for add-ons that used the proxy API until fixes were available for all users," Mozilla's Rachel Tublitz and Stuart Colville said. The add-ons (named Bypass and Bypass XM) were using the API to intercept and redirect web requests to block users from downloading updates, updating remotely configured content, and accessing updated blocklists. Mozilla blocked malicious Firefox add-ons installed by roughly 455,000 users after discovering in early June that they were abusing the proxy API to block Firefox updates.
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