Update Chrome ASAP to Protect Yourself From This Active Exploit

**TL;DR:** Update Chrome ASAP to Protect Yourself From This Active Exploit

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If you use Chrome (or a Chromium-based browser like Edge), listen up: You need to install your browser's latest update. Without it, you leave your browser vulnerable to attack, which puts its data in jeopardy. 102 for Linux) includes patches for 74 security vulnerabilities. " That alone would indicate this update is rather important, but there's more: One of these vulnerabilities is currently actively exploited. Google confirmed in its update that there is an exploit in the wild for the flaw tracked as CVE-2026-11645.

This flaw is an "out of bounds memory access" vulnerability affecting V8, Chrome's JavaScript engine. Hackers can exploit the flaw to have their own program read or write data outside of the memory spaces it's supposed to access. In other words, a hacker could run their own code in Chrome, as if it were something legitimate Google placed in the browser. All a hacker would need to do is trick you into clicking a link to a malicious website

Source: Lifehacker

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