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LinkedIn is secretly scanning your browser for 6,000 extensions, and you weren’t told

LinkedIn runs a hidden JavaScript script called Spectroscopy that silently probes over 6,000 Chrome extensions and collects ...

LinkedIn secretly scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data

A new report dubbed "BrowserGate" warns that Microsoft's LinkedIn is using hidden JavaScript scripts on its website to scan ...
XDA Developers on MSN

Google kept featuring this Chrome extension for months after it turned malicious

How can an extension change hands with no oversight?
theregister

Google rushes Chrome update fixing two zero-days already under attack

Google has pushed out an emergency Chrome update to fix two previously unknown vulnerabilities that attackers were already exploiting before the patches landed. The bugs, tracked as CVE-2026-3909 and ...