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Google on Monday shipped security updates to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in its Chrome web browser that it said is being exploited in the wild. The shortcoming, tracked as CVE-2022-2294, relates to a heap overflow flaw in the WebRTC component that provides real-time audio and video communication capabilities in browsers without the need to install plugins or download native apps.
Google has issued an unexpected update to its Chrome browser to address a zero-day WebRTC flaw that is actively being exploited. The fix is installing Chrome 103.0.5060.114 for Windows and Chrome 103.0.5060.71 for Android, both of which will appear soon.
Google has released Chrome 103.0.5060.114 for Windows users to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability exploited by attackers in the wild, the fourth Chrome zero-day patched in 2022. This update was available immediately when BleepingComputer checked for new updates by going into Chrome menu > Help > About Google Chrome.
With that said, let's get the Bitwarden Chrome plugin installed and see how it's used. Open Chrome and point it to the Bitwarden Chrome plugin page in the Chrome Web Store.
A researcher has discovered how to use your installed Google Chrome extensions to generate a fingerprint of your device that can be used to track you online. Yesterday, web developer 'z0ccc' shared a new fingerprinting method called 'Extension Fingerprints' that can generate a tracking hash based on a browser's installed Google Chrome extensions.
The uBlackList browser extension lets you clean up search results by removing specific sites when searching on Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, and other search engines. uBlackList is a browser extension for both Chromium and Firefox that allows you to input a list of websites you want to be blocked from search results.
A new Google Chrome browser extension called Vytal prevents webpages from using programming APIs to find your geographic location leaked, even when using a VPN. Many people use VPNs to hide their location or connect from another country while browsing the web. While a VPN will hide the IP address of your device and thus your physical location, it is possible to use JavaScript functions to query information directly from a web browser to find a visitor's general geographic location.
The criminals behind the Emotet botnet - which rose to fame as a banking trojan before evolving into spamming and malware delivery - are now using it to target credit card information stored in the Chrome web browser."The notorious botnet Emotet is back, and we can expect that new tricks and evasion techniques will be implemented in the malware as the operation progresses, perhaps even returning to being a significant global threat," Ron Ben Yizhak, security researcher with cybersecurity vendor Deep Instinct, wrote in a blog post in November outlining the technical evolutions in the malware.
The notorious Emotet malware has turned to deploy a new module designed to siphon credit card information stored in the Chrome web browser. The credit card stealer, which exclusively singles out Chrome, has the ability to exfiltrate the collected information to different remote command-and-control servers, according to enterprise security company Proofpoint, which observed the component on June 6.
The Emotet botnet is now attempting to infect potential victims with a credit card stealer module designed to harvest credit card information stored in Google Chrome user profiles. After stealing the credit card info, the malware will send it to command-and-control servers different than the ones the Emotet card stealer module.