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Google has released Chrome 100 today, March 29th, 2022, to the Stable desktop channel, and it includes a new logo, security improvements, development features, and more. Today, Google promoted Chrome 100 to the Stable channel, Chrome 101 as the new Beta version, and Chrome 102 will be the Canary version.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has ordered federal civilian agencies to patch a Google Chome zero-day and a critical Redis vulnerability actively exploited in the wild within the next three weeks. The Muhstik malware gang has added a dedicated spreader exploit for the Redis Lua sandbox escape vulnerability after a proof-of-concept exploit was publicly released on March 10th. According to a binding operational directive issued in November, Federal Civilian Executive Branch Agencies agencies must secure their systems against these vulnerabilities, with CISA giving them until April 18th to patch.

Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have been updated to patch a security flaw an exploit for which is said to be in the wild. Chromium is at the heart of Google Chrome as well as Microsoft Edge.

Last time we reported on a Chrome zero-day flaw was back in February 2022. Anyway, back in February 2022, none of the bugs listed by Goole got a truly dangerous rating of "Critical", but one of them, dubbed CVE-2022-0609, was nevertheless accompanied by the admittedly rather vague words: "Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2022-0609 exists in the wild."

Google on Friday shipped an out-of-band security update to address a high severity vulnerability in its Chrome browser that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-1096, the zero-day flaw relates to a type confusion vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine.

Google has released Chrome 99.0.4844.84 for Windows, Mac, and Linux users to address a high-severity zero-day bug exploited in the wild. This update was available immediately when BleepingComputer checked for new updates by going into Chrome menu > Help > About Google Chrome.

Google's Threat Analysis Group 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. based organizations spanning news media, IT, cryptocurrency, and fintech industries, with one set of the activities sharing direct infrastructure overlaps with previous attacks aimed at security researchers last year.

North Korean threat actors exploited a remote code execution zero-day vulnerability in Google's Chrome web browser weeks before the bug was discovered and patched, according to researchers. Google TAG now revealed it believes two threat groups-the activity of which has been publicly tracked as Operation Dream Job and Operation AppleJeus, respectively-exploited the flaw as early as Jan. 4 in "Campaigns targeting U.S. based organizations spanning news media, IT, cryptocurrency and fintech industries," according to a blog post published Thursday by Google TAG's Adam Weidemann.

Google on Thursday described how it apparently caught and thwarted North Korea's efforts to exploit a remote code execution vulnerability in Chrome. Exploiting the bug clears the way to compromise a victim's browser and potentially take over their computer to spy on them.

North Korean state hackers have exploited a zero-day, remote code execution vulnerability in Google Chrome web browser for more than a month before a patch became available, in attacks targeting news media, IT companies, cryptocurrency, and fintech organizations. Google's Threat Analysis Group attributed two campaigns exploiting the recently patched CVE-2022-0609 to two separate attacker groups backed by the North Korean government.