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Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The 245 extensions, available for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, have racked up nearly 909,000 downloads, John Tuckner of SecurityAnnex reported . The extensions serve a wide range of purposes, including managing bookmarks and clipboards, boosting speaker volumes, and generating random numbers. The common thread among all of them: They incorporate MellowTel-js , an open source JavaScript library that allows developers to monetize their extensions. Intentional weakening of browsing protections Tuckner and critics say the monetization works by using the browser extensions to scrape websites on behalf of paying customers, which include AI startups, according to MellowTel founder Arsian Ali. Tuckner reached this conclusion after uncovering close ties between MellowTel and Olostep , a company that bills itself as "the world's most reliable and cost-effective Web scraping API." Olostep says its service “avoids all bot detection and can parallelize up to 100K requests in minutes.” Paying customers submit the locations of browsers they want to access specific webpages. Olostep then uses its installed base of extension users to fulfill the request. Read full article Comments

CVSSv3 Score: 3.9 An Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability [CWE-200] in FortiOS SSL-VPN web-mode may allow an authenticated user to access full SSL-VPN settings via crafted URL. Revised on 2026-06-15 00:00:00

CVSSv3 Score: 5.9 CVE-2025-26466A flaw was found in the OpenSSH package. For each ping packet the SSH server receives, a pong packet is allocated in a memory buffer and stored in a queue of packages. It is only freed when the server/client key exchange has finished. A malicious client may keep sending such packages, leading to an uncontrolled increase in memory consumption on the server side. Consequently, the server may become unavailable, resulting in a denial of service attack. Revised on 2026-05-25 00:00:00