Why you should update your Chrome browser: zero-day exploit patched out
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If you’re using Chrome, you need to ensure that your browser immediately. Google has issued a security update wherein they recommend that you should update your browser now in order to stop a zero-day exploit that can be used against you by any bad actors who seek to attack your PC. To this end, Google has issued an emergency security update to the browser and has stated the following:
“Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2022-0609 exists in the wild,” Google said in a security post released yesterday.
In order to update your Chrome browser, you’ll need to go to the menu in Chrome, head to ‘Help’ then, ‘About Google Chrome’. From there, your browser will be able to update. In addition to this, you can also allow Chrome up install the latest updates before you close and relaunch the browser.
What is the Google Chrome zero-day exploit?
Right now the details of the exploit have not been disclosed by Google. Meaning, that the specifics are not publicly available. However, we do know that google described the issue as ‘Use after free in Animation’ and also assigned a High severity level for Google’s Security channels. The exploit was first identified by Google Security Engineer Clément Lecigne.
A zero-day exploit can be used to execute their own code on computers running older builds of Chrome and bypass Google’s own security systems. Google doesn’t usually publicise the details on technical details of the exploit, in order to presumably protect their own security systems, and so attackers do not get more lines of thought for executing code. They have also patched further security vulnerabilities, so be sure to update to version over to Chrome 98.0.4758.102 in order to avoid getting caught out, and potentially leaving you open to malicious attacks.
How to keep your computer safe
It’s generally good practice to keep your PC safe by keeping all of the software on your system up to date. Be sure to check through all of them in order to ensure that you’re able to keep yourself protected against anyone who might seek to mess around with your system, or potentially even steal your sensitive data.
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