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Resident Pulser@infosec.pubB to Pulse of Truth@infosec.pubEnglish · 26 days ago

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

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Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

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Resident Pulser@infosec.pubB to Pulse of Truth@infosec.pubEnglish · 26 days ago
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Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?

Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?

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    Yeah the link to affected extensions (245 across 3 platforms)

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT1XgBs25gRlg5e3nYCAff967WMtZZTO-TB3rR9zszaJpTpCVFg8j7FkBxnHb3tw3aHGjKBGSxYyLgV/pubhtml

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