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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.
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.
In September 2023, Google Chrome will stop showing the lock icon when a site loads over HTTPS, partly due to the now ubiquitous use of the protocol. "We redesigned the lock icon in 2016 after our research showed that many users misunderstood what the icon conveyed. Despite our best efforts, our research in 2021 showed that only 11% of study participants correctly understood the precise meaning of the lock icon," the team explained.
Google on Tuesday rolled out emergency fixes to address another actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-2136, is described as a case of integer overflow in Skia, an open source 2D graphics library.
Google has released an emergency Chrome security update to address the first zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks since the start of the year. This update was immediately available when BleepingComputer checked for new updates from the Chrome menu > Help > About Google Chrome.
The latest version of Google Chrome for macOS includes new optimizations that increase battery life on MacBooks. The reason why Google is optimizing Chrome battery consumption on Macs is likely because users report that Safari has much better performance on the system, leading them to use Apple's browser instead. Chrome's latest improvements will also be felt by those using older Apple hardware like Intel-based Macbooks.
Google is working on a new feature that allows you to disable or enable Chrome extensions based on site-by-site basis. The Chrome Web Store has many extensions, but there's a catch - some extensions can cause website problems, and some sites do not allow extensions like ad blockers.
Google says the latest release of Chrome for desktop devices now comes with a new performance-boosting feature designed to free up memory and make web browsing smoother. The new feature, dubbed Memory Saver, will release up to 30% of all memory by suspending inactive tabs, system memory which will be used by active tabs.
Google has patched CVE-2022-4262, a type confusion vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine used by Google Chrome, which is being exploited by attackers in the wild. "Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix," Srinivas Sista, Technical program manager for Google Chrome, explained.
The flaw was patched as an actively exploited zero-day bug in the Google Chrome web browser on Friday for Windows, Mac, and Linux users. In a security advisory published right before the weekend, Google said it "Is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2022-4262 exists in the wild."