Google has issued an urgent upgrade warning to its billions of Chrome users around the world. Here is everything you need to know
). Zero-day is the most dangerous form of attack because it means the vulnerability is known to hackers before Google could issue a fix. As the company admits, “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-1096 exists in the wild.” This means every Chrome user is vulnerable.
03/28 Update: Microsoft has now confirmed that the same zero-day hack affects its Edge browser. The company published a new update on itsconfirming that the exploit impacts all Chromium-based browsers:"The vulnerability assigned to this CVE is in Chromium Open Source Software which is consumed by Microsoft Edge ." This means that other Chromium-based browsers, including Amazon Silk, Brave, Opera, Samsung Internet , Vivaldi and Yandex browser are all highly likely to have been affected.
Microsoft also confirms that it has released a fix for Edge based on the Chromium update that Google already launched for Chrome. To get it, follow these steps:Click on 'Help and Feedback'
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