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Vulnerabilities

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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Vulnerabilities

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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Vulnerabilities

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.

3 min read
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Vulnerabilities

Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Exposed WhatsApp Data

A vulnerability in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension could have silently hijacked WhatsApp web data of millions.

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Vulnerabilities

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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Threat Intelligence

Fake GitHub Pages Impersonate 292 Real Brands to Push Password-Stealing Malware

A Russian-speaking crew built hundreds of lookalike project pages for security tools, wallets and dev software. One click on 'Download Secure Content' handed over browser passwords, crypto wallets and chat sessions.

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AI Security

A Bug in the Claude for Chrome Extension Has Survived Eight Fixes and Still Leaks Your Gmail

A flaw nicknamed 'ClaudeBleed' lets other browser extensions quietly read your email and calendar. After eight attempted patches, it apparently still works.

3 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Chrome and Edge Yank ModHeader Extension After Hidden History Collector Found

The browser add-on had 1.6 million users. A dormant tracker sat inside its official store version, though no evidence suggests it ever ran.

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Vulnerabilities

Google Patches 27 Chrome Flaws, Two Rated Critical

Chrome 150 arrives with fixes for a string of memory-related bugs, most of them found by Google's own engineers rather than outside researchers.

3 min read
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Vulnerabilities

Google Patches Fifth Chrome Zero-Day of 2022 as Hackers Actively Exploit the Flaw

A flaw in how Chrome handles a mobile-linking feature is being weaponised in real attacks. It's the fifth time this year Google has had to rush out an emergency fix for its browser.

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