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CISA warns of actively exploited bugs in Chrome and Excel parsing library
2024-01-03 12:55

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added two vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, a recently patched flaw in Google Chrome and a bug affecting an open-source Perl library for reading information in an Excel file called Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. Spreadsheet::ParseExcel RCE. The first issue that CISA added to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities is CVE-2023-7101, a remote code execution vulnerability that affects versions 0.65 and older of the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel library.

Google Chrome now scans for compromised passwords in the background
2023-12-24 15:11

Google says the Chrome Safety Check feature will work in the background to check if passwords saved in the web browser have been compromised. "Safety Check for Chrome on desktop will now run automatically in the background," said Chrome Group Product Manager Sabine Borsay.

Fake VPN Chrome extensions force-installed 1.5 million times
2023-12-22 13:30

Three malicious Chrome extensions posing as VPN infected were downloaded 1.5 million times, acting as browser hijackers, cashback hack tools, and data stealers. ReasonLabs notified Google of its findings, and the tech giant removed the offending extensions from the Chrome Web Store, but only after those had amassed a total of 1.5 million downloads.

Urgent: New Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild - Update ASAP
2023-12-21 03:41

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...

Google fixes 8th Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year
2023-12-20 21:41

Google has released emergency updates to fix another Chrome zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild, the eighth patched since the start of the year. The company fixed the zero-day bug for users in the Stable Desktop channel, with patched versions rolling out worldwide to Windows users and Mac and Linux users one day after being reported to Google.

Google's New Tracking Protection in Chrome Blocks Third-Party Cookies
2023-12-15 07:23

Google on Thursday announced that it will start testing a new feature called "Tracking Protection" starting January 4, 2024, to 1% of Chrome users as part of its efforts to deprecate third-party...

Google Chrome's new cache change could boost performance
2023-12-02 16:09

Google is introducing a significant change to Chrome's Back/Forward Cache behavior, allowing web pages to be stored in the cache, even if a webmaster specifies not to store a page in the browser's cache. "Bfcache is an in-memory cache that stores a complete snapshot of a page as the user is navigating away," explains Google's web.

Uh-oh, update Google Chrome – exploit already out there for one of these 6 security holes
2023-11-30 20:45

Google has rolled out six Chrome security fixes including one emergency patch for a bug for which exploit code is already out there. Google doesn't provide a whole lot of detail about the bug, nor any details about who may be exploiting it and to what nefarious end.

Google fixes Chrome zero day exploited in the wild (CVE-2023-6345)
2023-11-29 11:40

Google has released an urgent security update to fix a number of vulnerabilities in Chrome browser, including a zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild.CVE-2023-6345, reported by Benoît Sevens and Clément Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group, is due to an integer overflow in Skia - an open source 2D graphics library commonly used as a graphics engine for Google Chrome, ChromeOS, Android, Flutter, and others.

Zero-Day Alert: Google Chrome Under Active Attack, Exploiting New Vulnerability
2023-11-29 04:27

Google has rolled out security updates to fix seven security issues in its Chrome browser, including a zero-day that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-6345, the...