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Google has rolled out security updates for the Chrome web browser to address a high-severity zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-7024, has been described as a heap-based buffer overflow bug in the WebRTC framework that could be exploited to result in program crashes […]
Google on Friday shipped emergency fixes to address a security vulnerability in the Chrome web browser that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2022-3075, concerns a case of insufficient data validation in Mojo, which refers to a collection of runtime libraries that provide a platform-agnostic mechanism for […]
A malvertising threat is witnessing a new surge in activity since its emergence earlier this year. Dubbed ChromeLoader, the malware is a “pervasive and persistent browser hijacker that modifies its victims’ browser settings and redirects user traffic to advertisement websites,” Aedan Russell of Red Canary said in a new report. ChromeLoader is a rogue Chrome […]
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on Thursday disclosed that it acted to mitigate threats from two distinct government-backed attacker groups based in North Korea that exploited a recently-uncovered remote code execution flaw in the Chrome web browser. The campaigns, once again “reflective of the regime’s immediate concerns and priorities,” are said to have targeted U.S. […]
Google has rolled out yet another update to Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux to fix four security vulnerabilities, including one zero-day flaw that’s being exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-30554, the high severity flaw concerns a use after free vulnerability in WebGL (aka Web Graphics Library), a JavaScript API for rendering interactive […]
The infamous eGobbler hacking group that surfaced online earlier this year with massive malvertising campaigns has now been caught running a new campaign exploiting two browser vulnerabilities to show intrusive pop-up ads and forcefully redirect users to malicious websites. To be noted, hackers haven’t found any way to run ads for free; instead, the modus […]
Google has released an urgent software update for its Chrome web browser and is urging Windows, Mac, and Linux users to upgrade the application to the latest available version immediately. Started rolling out to users worldwide this Wednesday, the Chrome 77.0.3865.90 version contains security patches for 1 critical and 3 high-risk security vulnerabilities, the most […]
For those that don’t want to pay for HD content, they end-up using gray-area apps to accomplish the same thing. However, aside from the user-made free content on Youtube, there are more questionable sources on the Internet that covers free HD content than legitimate and safe sources. One such app that went to the dark […]
Ron Masas, a security researcher, working with Imperva, has recently flagged a vulnerability in Google Chrome that leveraged audio and video tags for launching the attack. In an article published by Masas, the root cause of the vulnerability is said to be Chrome’s rendering engine Blink, which is responsible for the behavior of audio and […]
Watch closely the below Ad-blocker extension, and if by any chance you have installed in your Google Chrome browser, and then you are in for a surprise. Yes, you could have been hacked. Five malicious ad blockers have been spotted by a security researcher nearly 20-million users across the world have installed the Adblocker. Nevertheless, […]