Security News > 2021 > June > Google Confirms Sixth Zero-Day Chrome Attack in 2021
Google's ongoing struggles with in-the-wild zero-day attacks against its flagship Chrome browser isn't going away anytime soon.
For the sixth time this year, the search giant shipped a Chrome point-update to fix code execution holes that the company says is already being exploited by malicious hackers.
Google rated the flaw as "High-risk" and has started pushing the latest patch to users via the browser's automatic-updating mechanism.
Google did not provide any additional details on the attacks, except to say it was reported anonymously two days ago, on June 15, 2021.
In addition to the zero-day being exploited, Google also patched three separate memory corruption vulnerabilities in WebAudio, TabGroups and Sharing.
It's been a record year for zero-day attacks with Google patching six such bugs in the Chrome browser.
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