Google Chrome update now lets you block cookies and tells you if your password has been hacked
Chrome Google warns of a serious security flaw
The new
Chrome 88
browser update
shared by Google fixes a zero-day vulnerability that was being exploited by cyber attackers.
Google has released
version 88.0.4324.150
of the Chrome browser for Windows, Mac and Linux, in which a
zero-day vulnerability
is corrected
, a flaw in software security that is unknown to users and manufacturers of the product.
This zero-day vulnerability was described as a "stack overflow" memory corruption bug in the
V8 engine for JavaScript
.
The threat is that, until a patch is designed to fix it, cyber attackers exploit the vulnerability and take advantage of the security flaw by attacking computer programs, data, systems or other equipment.
In a statement, Google explained that the software bug was exploited in various attacks before a security researcher, Mattias Buelens, reported the problem on January 24 and it was tracked as
CVE-2021-21148
.
Two days after Buelens' report, Google's security team released a statement on attacks carried out by
North Korean hackers
against the cybersecurity community.
Some of these attacks consisted of luring security researchers to a blog where cyber attackers took advantage of Chrome's zero-day vulnerability to run malware on their systems.
Due to the proximity of both events, as reported by ZDNet, some researchers believe that CVE-2021-21148 was used in those attacks, but Google has not disclosed any details about how the vulnerability has been exploited.
Users are advised to use Chrome 88's built-in update feature to
update their browser to the latest version as soon as possible
.
This can be done in the Chrome menu, the 'Help' option and in the 'About Google Chrome' section.
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