Google warns everyone to update their Chrome browser right now

It's always a good idea to keep all your software up-to-date, but it's not uncommon for a developer to make all users aware that they must drop everything and apply the latest update as soon as possible. . But that's exactly what Google did this week, as Clement Lecigne of the company's threat analysis group reveals in a blog post, that two "zero-day" vulnerabilities were discovered in Google Chrome.

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As Chrome security engineer Justin Schuh explained in a series of tweets on Wednesday, this attack is different from previous attacks on Chrome because, instead of targeting Flash, it targets the Chrome code directly.

When Flash was the first exploit of the chain, Google could silently update the Flash plug-in behind the scenes and Chrome automatically switched to the updated plug-in without any user intervention. On the other hand, this day zero exploit requires that the user manually restart the browser. So, even if the update is installed on your system, you must always close and reopen the browser for it to take effect.

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The (relatively) good news is that since yesterday Google has "only observed active exploitation against 32-bit Windows 7 systems". Therefore, if you are using Windows 10 (or even Windows 8), you are probably in the same situation. clear. Nevertheless, there is no point in taking risks. So make sure your browser is up to date and, if not, update it today.

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