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Google has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Ethan QiQi Hu and his company, Rafadigital, accusing him of creating 350 fraudulent Business Profiles and 14,000 fake reviews for an alleged business verification service for Google services. "Our lawsuit targets a bad actor who perpetrated a coordinated campaign to deceive consumers and business owners by fraudulently attempting to manipulate our services for small businesses," alleges a Google announcement.
Malwarebytes confirmed today that the Windows 11 22H2 KB5027231 cumulative update released this Patch Tuesday breaks Google Chrome on its customers' systems. The company published a support article today confirming the Malwarebytes conflict with Google Chrome after installing the June 2023 Patch Tuesday updates on Windows 11 systems.
During the Google I/O event last month, the global tech giant showed off new elements of ChromeOS, focused on security, ecosystem and user experience, as well as benefits of the Chrome Enterprise Connectors Framework. The framework lets organizations integrate vendors, including security providers, with the Chrome browser and ChromeOS using APIs and "Connectors" - with the goal of making it easier for organizations to control who has access to data.
Google says it has fixed a flaw that allowed a scammer to impersonate delivery service UPS on Gmail, after the data-hoarding web behemoth labeled the phony email as authentic. The problem stemmed from an issue in an email authentication program called Brand Indicators for Message Identification that aims to protect email users from brand spoofing and phishing attacks claiming to be from a trusted org.
Google Chrome is getting new security-enhancing features for the built-in Password Manager, making it easier for users to manage their passwords and stay safe from account hijacking attacks. The Chrome Password Manager is an integrated part of Google's services that can manage and autofill credentials on the Chrome browser and other Google software products, syncing the login information across all apps used by the same Google Account.
Once they've broken into a victims' compute environment - often via compromised credentials - they keep quiet, deploying mining malware and then raking in cryptocurrencies using the stolen compute resources. Plus, according to security researchers, illicit mining is on the rise.
Google said its data from last spring shows passkeys are two times faster and four times less error-prone than passwords. Google - along with Microsoft, Apple and others - announced last year that it would start to support passkeys and participate in their development with the Fast Identity Online Alliance, better known as the FIDO Alliance, and the World Wide Web Consortium standards.
Google has released a security update for Chrome web browser to address the third zero-day vulnerability that hackers exploited this year. Withholding technical information is the usual stance from Google when a new security issue is found.
Google on Monday released security updates to patch a high-severity flaw in its Chrome web browser that it said is being actively exploited in the wild.Tracked as CVE-2023-3079, the vulnerability has been described as a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine.
After making passkeys available for consumers in early May, Google is now rolling them out for Google Workspace and Google Cloud accounts. "Google early data has shown that passkeys are 2x faster and 4x less error prone than passwords," researches noted.