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Chrome and Firefox Fix 115 Security Flaws in Back-to-Back Updates

Google and Mozilla have each pushed out new browser versions carrying fixes for dozens of vulnerabilities, three of them rated critical in Chrome. Neither company has seen any of the flaws used in real attacks, but the advice is the same: update now.

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Google Patches Fifth Chrome Zero-Day of 2022 as Attacks Continue

A flaw in how Chrome handles Android deep links is being actively exploited. It's the fifth Chrome vulnerability criminals have used in the wild this year, and the patch window is tight.

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Threat Intelligence

PEEP: The Fake Bookmarks Extension That Turns Chrome Into a Backdoor

Researchers have detailed a post-exploitation toolkit that quietly slips into Chrome and Edge profiles by forging the browser's own trust files.

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Google rushes out Chrome fix after hackers exploit V8 flaw in the wild

A type confusion bug in Chrome's JavaScript engine is already being used in real attacks. Update your browser now.

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Threat Intelligence

Nineteen Browser Extensions Caught Emptying Crypto Wallets

Researchers found 18 Chrome add-ons and one Edge add-on that quietly stole wallet keys and drained funds, in a campaign that may have run for months.

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Chrome 152 Patches 327 Security Flaws, Most Found by Google's Own AI

Google's largest Chrome update fixes hundreds of vulnerabilities at once, with its own AI tools responsible for the overwhelming majority of discoveries.

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Firefox and Chrome Rush Out Patches for Dozens of Security Flaws

Mozilla fixed 58 vulnerabilities in Firefox 154, while Google addressed 15 in Chrome 151, including two critical bugs that could let attackers run malicious code on your device.

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Threat Intelligence

Researchers Show How Attackers Can Hijack Live Chrome and Edge Sessions on Windows

A post-exploitation trick flips on Chrome's built-in debugger inside a running browser, handing attackers cookies and logged-in sessions without touching the password vault.

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Identity & Access

737 Fake VPN Extensions in Chrome Store Quietly Hijacked Browsers

The free browser add-ons promised to unblock websites for Russian speakers. Instead they routed every page a user visited through servers the operators controlled.

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Threat Intelligence

Chrome Now Blocks 7 Billion Junk Notifications a Day on Android

Google's browser is quietly killing off scam pop-ups at the source, using layered checks that yank permissions from sites behaving badly.

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Policy & Regulation

When a Browser Stops Trusting a Certificate Authority, Nobody Owns the Aftermath

Google's 2024 decision to drop Entrust from Chrome was technically correct. What happened next exposed a gap that no government agency, standards body, or industry forum is built to fill.

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Google Patches 1,442 Chrome Flaws Across Three Releases, More Than the Prior 23 Combined

Chrome 149, 150 and 151 together resolved more security bugs than nearly two years of previous updates, with Google's own researchers flagging the bulk of the issues.

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Google Patches 370 Security Flaws in Chrome 151, Including Seven Critical Bugs

The browser update is one of Google's largest single releases of the year, fixing flaws that could let attackers take control of your browser or crash it entirely.

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Google Patches Seven Memory Safety Bugs in Chrome 150, Three Rated Critical

All seven flaws were found internally or by researchers, not by criminals. But history says patch fast anyway.

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Threat Intelligence

This Week's Cyber Mess: Fake Repos, Chrome Sync Stalking and a Ransomware Crew That Moves in a Day

A roundup of the week's smaller stories that share one uncomfortable theme: attacks that succeed because something looked close enough to trust.

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