captjack on Nostr: > Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript ...
> Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions.
> The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results, encrypts them, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers.
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2026-04-03 08:03:38 UTCEvent JSON
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