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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Axios Hack, Chrome 0-Day, Fortinet Exploits, Paragon Spyware and More

Phishing surge, LinkedIn tracking claims, spyware use, and rising stealers expose growing abuse of trusted systems.
Tech Times

LinkedIn 'BrowserGate' Investigation Alleges Secret Browser Extension Scanning Within Platform

A BrowserGate investigation alleges LinkedIn secretly scans over 6,000 browser extensions and builds device fingerprints ...
The Next Web

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 ...
The Hacker News

Hackers Exploit CVE-2025-55182 to Breach 766 Next.js Hosts, Steal Credentials

"The C2 hosts a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) titled 'NEXUS Listener' that can be used to view stolen information ...
GitHub

[Bug]: Test Explorer Debug Session Hangs & Chrome Does Not Launch

Open a project with JavaScriptests. Open the Test Explorer panel. Choose Debug Test on any test. Observe that Chrome does not open Selecting Debug Test should start a debug session. Chrome (or the ...
GitHub

Browser-only AITuber chat app built with React and Vite. It uses Chrome Built-in AI (Gemini Nano / Prompt API) for Japanese responses, piper-plus WASM for speech synthesis, and ...

On first launch, if the model is not yet present on the device, Chrome requires a direct user action to begin model preparation. Use the Prepare AI button shown in the app before sending messages. The ...