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A new Chrome browser botnet named 'Cloud9' has been discovered in the wild using malicious extensions to steal online accounts, log keystrokes, inject ads and malicious JS code, and enlist the victim's browser in DDoS attacks. The Cloud9 browser botnet is effectively a remote access trojan for the Chromium web browser, including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, allowing the threat actor to remotely execute commands.

Google pushed out a bunch of security fixes for the Chrome and Chromium browser code earlier this week. In short, what we mean is that when Google says "It is aware of reports" of an attack launched by exploiting Chrome in real life, we're ready to assume that you can translate this into "The bug is real, and it really can be exploited, but because we didn't actually investigate the hacked system in real life ourselves, we're still on safe ground if we don't come straight out and say, 'Hey, everyone, it's an 0-day'."

Google has released an emergency security update for the Chrome desktop web browser to address a single vulnerability known to be exploited in attacks. The high-severity flaw is a type confusion bug in the Chrome V8 Javascript engine discovered and reported to Google by analysts at Avast.

Google on Thursday rolled out emergency fixes to contain an actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3723, has been described as a type confusion flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine.

Google announced today that the Google Chrome web browser will likely drop support for Windows 7 and 8.1 starting February 2023. After support is discontinued for these two Windows versions, the company says Chrome users must ensure that their devices are running at least Windows 10.

Researchers at Guardio Labs have discovered a new malvertizing campaign pushing Google Chrome extensions that hijack searches and insert affiliate links into webpages. Because all these extensions offer color customization options and arrive on the victim's machine with no malicious code to evade detection, the analysts named the campaign "Dormant Colors."

Google on Wednesday officially rolled out support for passkeys, the next-generation authentication standard, to both Android and Chrome. "Passkeys are a significantly safer replacement for passwords and other phishable authentication factors," the tech giant said.

Google announced today that it's introducing passkey support to its Chrome web browser and the Android operating system to simplify sign-ins across apps, websites, and devices. "Passkeys are a significantly safer replacement for passwords and other phishable authentication factors. They cannot be reused, don't leak in server breaches, and protect users from phishing attacks," Google said today.

Google has announced more details regarding turning off support for the Google Chrome Manifest V2 extension as the company pushes more developers to transition to Manifest V3. An update from the Chrome team says that they will proceed in careful, experimental steps, ensuring a smooth end-user experience during the phase-out of Manifest V2 in June 2023. In January 2022, the Chrome Web Store stopped accepting new extensions built on Manifest V2. According to the original roll-out timeline released by Google a year ago, starting from January 2023, all extensions built on Manifest V2 would stop working on the Chrome browser.

Gay hookup and cruising web app Sniffies is being impersonated by opportunistic threat actors hoping to target the website's users with typosquatting domains that push scams and dubious Google Chrome extensions. In some cases, these illicit domains launch the Apple Music app prompting users to buy a subscription, which in turn would earn threat actors a commission.