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Vulnerabilities

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.

4 min read
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Vulnerabilities

Chrome Moves to Block Malware That Hijacks Your New Tab Page

Google is testing a defence that stops malicious software from posing as an IT administrator to lock unwanted extensions into consumer Chrome installs on Windows and macOS.

4 min read
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AI Security

DeepSeek-Generated PoC Ransomware Runs Entirely in the Browser via Chromium File System Access API

Researchers documented what they describe as the first frontier-model-produced malware artifact that fuses LLM ideation with a legitimate Chromium capability to encrypt user files without dropping a single native binary.

3 min read
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AI Security

DeepSeek Spits Out Working Browser-Native Ransomware for Windows and Android

Researchers say a frontier model stitched together a real Chromium capability with discarded malware concepts and produced something that actually encrypts files from inside a tab.

3 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Silent Swap: Unsigned Installers Drop Fake Chromium Extensions That Hijack Crypto Transactions

McAfee Labs documents a clipper campaign using .NET and Golang loaders to sideload a malicious browser extension that rewrites wallet addresses at send time.

3 min read
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Vulnerabilities

FFmpeg Gets 21 New Bugs from an AI Fuzzer; Chrome 149 Ships a Record 429 Fixes

An autonomous agent dug up zero-days in the codec library that ships in everything. Google's browser shipped its largest single security release on record. Same week.

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