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**Source 1: Chrome 148 Update Patches 151 Vulnerabilities - SecurityWeek**
URL: https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-148-update-patches-151-vulnerabilities/
Content: ## Daily Briefing Newsletter

Subscribe to the SecurityWeek Email Briefing for the latest cybersecurity threats, trends, and expert insights.

## More from Ionut Arghire

 Google Unveils AI Threat Defense Platform to Fight AI-Powered Cyberattacks
 RevEng.AI Raises $15 Million to Hunt for Flaws and Backdoors in Software Binaries
 GlassWorm Botnet Disrupted
 FBI: Hackers Sending Operatives in Person to Insert USB Drives and Steal Data
 CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Zero-Day
 Iranian APT Targets Aviation, Software Companies With Updated Tools
 185,000 Likely Impacted by 7-Eleven Data Breach
 Hackers Exploited KnowledgeDeliver Zero-Day for Web Shell Deployment

## Latest News [...] ## Latest News

 Russia-Linked ‘GreyVibe’ Attackers Use AI to Supercharge Cyberattacks
 Geordie Raises $30 Million for AI Security and Governance Platform
 Carnival Data Breach Exposed 6 Million People
 New BTMOB Android Malware Enables Full Device Takeover
 Critical FortiClient EMS Vulnerability Exploited in Fresh Attacks
 IBM and Red Hat Commit $5 Billion to Secure Open Source Supply Chains Under “Project Lightwell”
 New Edamame Platform Aims to Catch AI Coding Agents Going Off the Rails
 Gitea Vulnerability Exposed 30,000 Deployments to Attacks

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Subscribe to the SecurityWeek Email Briefing to stay informed on the latest threats, trends, and technology, along with insightful columns from industry experts. [...] With most of the flaws marked as “reported by Google”, the surge in vulnerability discoveries is likely driven by AI use, which also determined the company to lower Chrome bug bounties last month.

The latest Chrome iteration is now rolling out as versions 148.0.7778.216/217 for Windows, versions 148.0.7778.215/216 for macOS, and version 148.0.7778.215 for Linux.

Related: Chrome 148 Update Patches Critical Vulnerabilities

Related: CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Zero-Day

Related: TrendAI Patches Apex One Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

Related: Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerability in Secure Workload

Written By Ionut Arghire

Ionut Arghire is an international correspondent for SecurityWeek.

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Hi, what are you looking for? [...] The internet giant says it has paid over $130,000 in bug bounty rewards for 10 security flaws reported by external researchers. The final amount could be much higher, as Google has yet to disclose the amounts paid for several other vulnerabilities.

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Most of the security weaknesses resolved with the latest browser update were discovered by Google themselves, a common occurrence in recent Chrome refreshes.

Starting in late March, the number of vulnerabilities resolved with each update has increased significantly, with over 350 issues addressed in Chrome 148 alone, this update included.

**Source 2: Chrome 147, Firefox 150 Security Updates Rolling Out - SecurityWeek**
URL: https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-147-firefox-150-security-updates-rolling-out/
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## The New Rules of Engagement: Matching Agentic Attack Speed

The cybersecurity response to AI-enabled nation-state threats cannot be incremental. It must be architectural. (Nadir Izrael)

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While most of the resolved vulnerabilities were reported by Google’s own team, the final amount might be much higher once all the rewards are disclosed.

The latest Chrome iteration is now rolling out as version 147.0.7727.137/138 for Windows and macOS, and as version 147.0.7727.137 for Linux.

On Tuesday, Mozilla announced the release of Firefox 150.0.1 with fixes for four security defects, including critical and high-severity memory safety bugs collectively tracked as CVE-2026-7322, CVE-2026-7323, and CVE-2026-7324.

“Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code,” Mozilla notes for each CVE.

**Source 3: In Other News: Trump Mobile Data Breach, FIFA World Cup Phishing, CISA Responds to Supply Chain Attacks - SecurityWeek**
URL: https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-trump-mobile-data-breach-fifa-world-cup-phishing-cisa-responds-to-supply-chain-attacks/
Content: UK Visa Portal exposes over 100,000 documents

Immigration portal UK Visa Portal publicly exposed over 100,000 documents of people who applied for a UK visa, TechCrunch reports. Not affiliated with the UK government, the website requires applicants to upload selfies and passports, and to pay a fee for obtaining visas. The exposed files were stored in an AWS S3 bucket and were secured earlier this week.

LinkedIn phishing campaign abuses Adobe Target [...] Veeam, Notepad++, Roundcube patches

Veeam this week resolved two high-severity vulnerabilities in its Backup & Replication product, warning they could lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary file writes. Notepad++ patched three security issues, including two leading to arbitrary code execution. The latest Roudcube security updates fix eight flaws, including unauthenticated SQL injection and arbitrary file delete bugs.

CISA responds to recent supply chain attacks [...] Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.

Documents presented in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Bloomberg News against the US government show that the Russian state-sponsored APT responsible for the 2019-2020 SolarWinds supply chain attack had deep access to Treasury emails. The hackers reportedly focused on only eight email accounts linked to 300 other email addresses. The Treasury had roughly 94,000 people at the time.

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 Chrome 148 Update Patches 151 Vulnerabilities
 Russia-Linked ‘GreyVibe’ Attackers Use AI to Supercharge Cyberattacks
 Geordie Raises $30 Million for AI Security and Governance Platform
 Carnival Data Breach Exposed 6 Million People

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On-Demand [...] LinkedIn phishing campaign abuses Adobe Target

Phishers are posing as LinkedIn in a new phishing campaign posing as a business inquiry. The emails contain fake contract attachments masquerading as PDFs. In fact, they are HTML files directing victims to the Adobe Target A/B testing platform. The attackers are abusing Adobe Target to track users and serve them fake login pages to steal their credentials before redirecting them to LinkedIn.

2026 FIFA World Cup in attackers’ crosshairs

**Source 4: Chrome 148 Rolls Out With 127 Security Fixes - SecurityWeek**
URL: https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-148-rolls-out-with-127-security-fixes/
Content: Written By Ionut Arghire

Ionut Arghire is an international correspondent for SecurityWeek.

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 Oracle Debuts Monthly Critical Security Patch Updates
 Critical Bug Could Expose 300,000 Ollama Deployments to Information Theft
 Critical, High-Severity Vulnerabilities Patched in Apache MINA, HTTP Server
 Karakurt Ransomware Negotiator Sentenced to Prison

## Latest News [...] ## Latest News

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 Vendor Says Daemon Tools Supply Chain Attack Contained
 AI Coding Agents Could Fuel Next Supply Chain Crisis
 Webinar Today: Securing Identity Across Humans, Machines and AI
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 Gemini CLI Vulnerability Could Have Led to Code Execution, Supply Chain Attack
 Claude AI Guided Hackers Toward OT Assets During Water Utility Intrusion
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# Chrome 148 Rolls Out With 127 Security Fixes

The fresh browser update resolves critical-severity integer overflow and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

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Google on Wednesday announced the promotion of Chrome 148 to the stable channel with 127 security fixes, including three for critical-severity vulnerabilities.

The first critical flaw is an integer overflow issue in Blink, tracked as CVE-2026-7896. It could allow remote attackers to exploit a heap memory corruption via a crafted HTML page.

According to Google’s advisory, a $43,000 bug bounty reward was paid to the researcher who reported the flaw in mid-March. [...] While most of the addressed vulnerabilities were discovered by Google, the company says it paid $138,000 in bug bounty rewards to external researchers. The final amount could be much higher, as the internet giant has yet to disclose the amounts handed out for many of the resolved issues.

The latest Chrome iteration is now rolling out as version 148.0.7778.96 for Linux and as versions 148.0.7778.96/97 for Windows and macOS.

Related: Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Patched in Android

Related: Google Adjusts Bug Bounties: Chrome Payouts Drop as Android Rewards Rise Amid AI Surge

Related: Chrome 147, Firefox 150 Security Updates Rolling Out

Related: Claude Mythos Finds 271 Firefox Vulnerabilities

Written By Ionut Arghire [...] Beyond monitoring and compliance, visibility acts as a powerful deterrent, shaping user behavior, improving collaboration, and enabling more accurate, data-driven security decisions. (Joshua Goldfarb)

## The New Rules of Engagement: Matching Agentic Attack Speed

The cybersecurity response to AI-enabled nation-state threats cannot be incremental. It must be architectural. (Nadir Izrael)

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**Source 5: AI-Generated npm Malware Leaks Its Own GitHub Token - Infosecurity Magazine**
URL: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-npm-malware-leaks-github-token/
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### China-Linked Webworm APT Evolves Tactics, Expands to European Targets

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### AI Raises the Bar on Vulnerability Awareness and Secure-by-Design Software

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### FBI Warns 'Kali365' Phishing Kit Hijacks Microsoft 365 OAuth Tokens

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A malicious npm package has been caught leaking its own hardcoded GitHub token, a blunder that let researchers watch the operator's data theft unfold from the inside.

The package, named mouse5212-super-formatter, was identified by OX Security according to new analysis from the firm's research team. It functions as an infostealer, quietly reading files from a victim's machine and uploading them to a repository the attacker controls.

**Source 6: Windows 11 KB5089573 update released with performance improvements - BleepingComputer**
URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-kb5089573-update-released-with-performance-improvements/
Content: "This update improves sign‑in behavior on the lock screen and sign‑in screen. When Windows Hello face or fingerprint is set up and available, it is now the default sign-in method every time you sign in, even if you used a different method previously. If you need to use your Windows PIN instead and use it three times in a row, Windows will stay with PIN until you switch to another sign-in method."

Additionally, KB5089573 improves Windows reliability in File Explorer, on the sign-in and lock screens, when changing themes in Settings, and when using touch gestures on touchscreen devices.

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With the May 2026 optional update, Microsoft is gradually rolling out general OS performance upgrades and several reliability improvements to Windows Hello.

"This update accelerates app launch and core shell experiences such as Start menu, Search, and Action Center," Microsoft said in a Tuesday support document. [...] Automated pentesting tools deliver real value, but they were built to answer one question: can an attacker move through the network? They were not built to test whether your controls block threats, your detection rules fire, or your cloud configs hold.

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**Source 7: Minecraft 26.2 Pre-Release 2 - Minecraft**
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Content: ## Get the Pre-Release

Pre-Releases are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the Pre-Release, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

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## Fixed bugs in 26.2 Pre-Release 2 [...] MC-305475 - Tripwire above the player's head gets triggered twice when jumping
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**Source 8: ChromeOS 148 is now rolling out: update now for the security, not the new features - Chrome Unboxed**
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It might be a boring changelog, but keeping your device on the latest stable build is still the best way to keep your data protected and your hardware running smoothly. The rollout is moving out in stages, so if you don’t see ChromeOS 148 waiting for you in Settings > About ChromeOS just yet, give it a few days to hit your specific device.

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Beyond that, the changelog is a textbook definition of maintenance, packing the usual assortment of under-the-hood bug fixes, performance optimizations, and security patches designed to keep your current hardware running tightly.

## Setting the stage for the LTS freeze

The quiet nature of ChromeOS 148 makes perfect sense when you look at the upcoming roadmap. Google’s release schedule highlights that ChromeOS 150 – which is slated to drop on Tuesday, July 21, 2026 – will serve as the next official Long-Term Candidate (LTC) release. [...] For the uninitiated, the Long-Term Support (LTS) channel is what schools and enterprise environments use to lock their devices into a hyper-stable software baseline for months at a time, receiving only critical security patches while skipping the standard four-week feature update cycle. Because Google engineers are gearing up to freeze the code for that massive 150 baseline this summer, these intermediate builds are all about squashing bugs and hardening security rather than introducing potentially volatile new software features.

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## A pure security and maintenance milestone

The official enterprise release notes for ChromeOS 148 confirm that Google is entirely focused on the fundamentals right now: stability, security, and long-term maintenance.

The single major headline for this release is a backend Certificate Provisioning migration. Google is actively forcing a shift away from its legacy certificate enrollment solutions, moving administrators over to the more modern Certificate Provisioning API that initially debuted back in ChromeOS 142. It is a vital structural update for enterprise and school IT managers who need to ensure seamless, secure network authentication across their fleets before the old method is permanently deprecated at the end of 2026.

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**Title:** Chrome 148’s Security Surge Is a WordPress Admin Problem, Too

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**Featured Image Description:** A WordPress admin dashboard open on a laptop with browser update and security alert icons layered around it, suggesting endpoint and browser security for site administrators.

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Google’s Chrome 148 cycle has been unusually noisy: after an initial stable-channel release with 127 security fixes, including critical Blink issues, Google followed with another Chrome 148 update that patched 151 more vulnerabilities and noted that more than 350 issues had been addressed across Chrome 148 so far [[4]](https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-148-rolls-out-with-127-security-fixes/) [[1]](https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-148-update-patches-151-vulnerabilities/). Mozilla also shipped Firefox 150.0.1 with fixes for critical and high-severity memory safety bugs that it says could potentially be pushed toward arbitrary code execution with enough effort [[2]](https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-147-firefox-150-security-updates-rolling-out/).

That may sound like browser news, not WordPress news. But if you build, administer, or support WordPress sites, the browser is part of your production toolchain. The block editor, Site Editor, media library, plugin settings screens, WooCommerce order screens, analytics dashboards, and hosting control panels are all web applications running inside the browser. When the browser is behind, your WordPress admin session is behind with it.

As a developer, I tend to think of WordPress security in layers: core, plugins, themes, hosting, authentication, file permissions, and backups. This month’s browser and supply-chain news is a useful reminder that there is another layer we do not always document clearly enough: the workstation used to log in to wp-admin.

## The admin browser is now a privileged WordPress surface

Chrome 148 is rolling out as versions 148.0.7778.216/217 for Windows, 148.0.7778.215/216 for macOS, and 148.0.7778.215 for Linux in the later security update [[1]](https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-148-update-patches-151-vulnerabilities/). Earlier in the same Chrome 148 line, Google fixed critical issues including an integer overflow in Blink, CVE-2026-7896, that could be reached through a crafted HTML page [[4]](https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-148-rolls-out-with-127-security-fixes/).

For WordPress teams, the practical concern is not that WordPress itself caused these browser bugs. It is that administrators routinely move between untrusted pages, preview links, embedded content, vendor dashboards, documentation, email, and wp-admin in the same browser profile. A compromised browser session can become a WordPress incident very quickly if that profile also contains active admin cookies, saved credentials, extension access, or SSO tokens.

My recommendation for site owners is simple: treat browser updates like plugin updates. They should be part of the same operational rhythm.

For a small business site, that can be as basic as:

- Confirm Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari auto-updates are enabled on every machine used for admin access.
- Restart the browser after updates; pending updates do not help if the old process stays open for days.
- Use a separate browser profile for WordPress administration.
- Keep unnecessary browser extensions out of the admin profile.
- Require two-factor authentication for administrator and shop manager accounts.
- Avoid logging into wp-admin from unmanaged personal machines.

For agencies and larger teams, I would go one step further and write this into your maintenance checklist. If you already track WordPress core, plugin, theme, PHP, database, and server package updates, add “admin endpoint browser version” to the list.

## ChromeOS fleets need attention before the LTS freeze

ChromeOS 148 is also rolling out, and while the feature list is quiet, the release is framed as a security and maintenance milestone [[8]](https://chromeunboxed.com/chromeos-148-is-now-rolling-out-update-now-for-the-security-not-the-new-features/). Chrome Unboxed notes that the big enterprise change is a backend Certificate Provisioning migration, with Google pushing administrators away from legacy certificate enrollment approaches and toward the newer Certificate Provisioning API before older methods are deprecated at the end of 2026 [[8]](https://chromeunboxed.com/chromeos-148-is-now-rolling-out-update-now-for-the-security-not-the-new-features/).

This matters for schools, nonprofits, and distributed businesses that use Chromebooks to manage WordPress intranets, newsroom sites, course portals, or WooCommerce stores. A Chromebook that cannot authenticate cleanly to Wi-Fi, VPN, or device-managed services can become a support problem at the worst possible time — usually right when someone needs to publish, edit, or process orders.

If your organization manages ChromeOS devices, now is a good time to verify:

- Devices are actually receiving ChromeOS 148.
- Certificate provisioning policies are current.
- Admin users are not stuck on devices outside the supported update path.
- WordPress admin access is limited to managed devices where practical.

This is not glamorous work, but neither is restoring a site after an avoidable account compromise.

## The npm malware story should make WordPress plugin developers pause

The other recent item that caught my eye is the malicious npm package `mouse5212-super-formatter`, reported by OX Security and covered by Infosecurity Magazine. The package acted as an infostealer, reading files from a victim’s machine and uploading them to an attacker-controlled GitHub repository — and, in a fairly absurd twist, leaked its own hardcoded GitHub token in the process [[5]](https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-npm-malware-leaks-github-token/).

That story is easy to laugh at, but the defensive lesson is serious. Modern WordPress development often depends on npm: block plugins, custom editor extensions, theme build systems, design token pipelines, Tailwind/Sass builds, Storybook setups, Playwright tests, and deployment scripts. Even if the production site is PHP, the build chain may be JavaScript-heavy.

If a malicious npm dependency lands on a developer machine or in CI, the attacker may not need direct access to WordPress at all. They may be able to steal:

- GitHub tokens
- deployment keys
- `.env` files
- composer authentication files
- SSH keys
- database dumps
- plugin ZIP artifacts
- wp-config backups
- hosting API credentials

For WordPress plugin and theme developers, I’d tighten the workflow this month rather than waiting for a scarier package name to show up in your own dependency tree.

A few habits I recommend:

```bash
npm ci
npm audit
npm outdated
```

Use `npm ci` in CI so installs follow the lockfile exactly. Review new packages before adding them, especially tiny “formatter,” “helper,” or “utility” packages that ask for broad install-time behavior. Avoid running random package CLIs against a repository that contains secrets. And if a suspicious package ever touches a machine, rotate tokens first and ask questions second.

The advice from OX Security for anyone who installed the malicious package was direct: revoke GitHub access tokens and treat sensitive files in the affected directory as compromised [[5]](https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-npm-malware-leaks-github-token/). That is the right mindset for WordPress shops, too.

## What I’m changing in WordPress maintenance plans

Here is how I would translate this week’s news into a WordPress maintenance plan.

First, I would add browser and OS patch checks to the client-facing maintenance report. Not every client will care about exact browser versions, but they do understand “the computers used to manage the site must be patched.” This is especially important for clients with multiple editors, contractors, or store managers.

Second, I would separate admin work from general browsing. A dedicated browser profile for WordPress reduces extension exposure and makes it easier to enforce password-manager and 2FA behavior. It also lowers the chance that someone logs into wp-admin in the same messy profile used for social media links, ad dashboards, unknown attachments, and random preview URLs.

Third, I would audit development secrets. If your WordPress project has a `.env`, local database dump, private Composer repository token, deployment webhook, or GitHub token sitting in the project directory, assume npm malware would love to find it. Move secrets into proper secret managers where possible, reduce token scopes, and rotate anything stale.

Fourth, I would review who has `unfiltered_html` capability. Browser memory bugs and malicious scripts are not the same category of issue, but both get worse when trusted admin contexts are too broad. Most editors do not need administrator-level access, and most content users do not need the ability to paste unrestricted HTML.

Finally, I would update onboarding docs. New developers and content editors should be told exactly which browser/profile to use, how 2FA is enforced, where secrets belong, and what not to install. Security that lives only in the lead developer’s head is not a process.

## The takeaway

The headline numbers — 151 Chrome vulnerabilities in one update, 127 fixes earlier in Chrome 148, Firefox memory-safety fixes, and npm malware leaking its own token — all point in the same direction: the edges around WordPress matter [[1]](https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-148-update-patches-151-vulnerabilities/) [[4]](https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-148-rolls-out-with-127-security-fixes/) [[2]](https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-147-firefox-150-security-updates-rolling-out/) [[5]](https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-npm-malware-leaks-github-token/).

A WordPress site can be fully patched and still be exposed by a vulnerable admin browser, a messy developer workstation, or an over-permissioned build pipeline. This month, I’d patch the browsers, check the ChromeOS fleet, rotate old development tokens, and make sure WordPress admin access is happening from environments you actually trust.

## References

[1] [Chrome 148 Update Patches 151 Vulnerabilities - SecurityWeek](https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-148-update-patches-151-vulnerabilities/)

[2] [Chrome 147, Firefox 150 Security Updates Rolling Out - SecurityWeek](https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-147-firefox-150-security-updates-rolling-out/)

[4] [Chrome 148 Rolls Out With 127 Security Fixes - SecurityWeek](https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-148-rolls-out-with-127-security-fixes/)

[5] [AI-Generated npm Malware Leaks Its Own GitHub Token - Infosecurity Magazine](https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-npm-malware-leaks-github-token/)

[8] [ChromeOS 148 is now rolling out: update now for the security, not the new features - Chrome Unboxed](https://chromeunboxed.com/chromeos-148-is-now-rolling-out-update-now-for-the-security-not-the-new-features/)

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