Google Chrome is at the center of a last-minute alert issued to hundreds of millions of users around the world, and this is because we are talking about a very serious problem that has been officially disclosed by Google. Just today a new update was released for Google Chrome and users around the world, version 86.0.4240.111 is now available for installation for all those interested in it.
Google Chrome in this version, an extremely serious problem has been solved, that is, a zero-day exploit, one that was not known to Google until it was solved, and one that was exploited by hackers. Normally, exploits don't really end up being exploited by hackers on the Internet before being shut down by companies, but in this particular case, this vulnerability for Google Chrome was being actively exploited.
Google Chrome: LAST HOUR ALERT to MILLIONS of People
Google Chrome had this vulnerability discovered as a problem with FreeType fonts, but unfortunately because of it hackers could obtain administrator privileges in the browser used by users. Unfortunately, those at Google have also seen how this exploit for Google Chrome was actively used by a hacker to attack users on the Internet, so from here came the decision to solve the problem very quickly.
Project Zero discovered and reported an actively exploited 0day in freetype that was being used to target Chrome. A stable release that fixes this issue (CVE-2020-15999) is available here: https://t.co/ZRQe72Qfkh
- Ben Hawkes (@benhawkes) October 20, 2020
Google Chrome has been actively rolling out various updates to users around the world, so it shouldn't be surprising to see an update like this released now, especially since it protects users. Google Chrome has this update released through the standard system used by Google to distribute updates, and it is done automatically if you access the settings menu that the browser has, everything being very simple to do.
Google Chrome has constantly released updates for users, and it is good to have all of them installed in your computers so as not to miss including these solutions for major problems.
