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LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
(browsergate.eu)
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It looks like the attack only works on Chrome (or Chrome based browsers).
They have 2 methods for figuring out which extensions are used: asking the browser for files related to each of the 6000+ extensions they scan for, and checking the DOM for injected content
But that doesn’t mean that Firefox couldn’t be targeted in the future.
A good way to protect yourself is to use uBlock Origin or something similar, which will block the collected data from getting sent to LinkedIn
Extensions? It just said software above.
Is it actually scanning for installed software on the system or just chrome extensions?
Yeah it’s a bit dishonest
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