Chrome users need to ensure their browser is up to date as Google confirms multiple new high-rated security issues
and very little detail was released about it for obvious reasons. Now that there has been plenty of time for users to apply the fix, in the form of the first Google Chrome security update for July, that detail has started to emerge courtesy of the threat researchers at Avast who discovered it. In a newly published report, the, in particular journalists in Lebanon.
The Avast researchers say that they can"confidently attribute it to a secretive spyware vendor" which they name as Candiru. A year ago, almost to the day, Citizen Lab research claimed that Candiru was"a mercenary spyware firm that markets 'untraceable' spyware to government customers. Their product offering includes solutions for spying on computers, mobile devices, and cloud accounts.
Avast reports how the zero-day was designed to target Chrome users on the Windows platform, because it used a WebRTC bug it also impacted Microsoft Edge and even Apple Safari. All versions of Chrome have since been patched. This, if you really needed reminding, is a good reason to ensure you don't hang around installing these security updates for Chrome. With billions of users spread across multiple platforms, it is a very profitable target for malicious actors. As stated above, while your browser will automatically download new updates once they are available to it, these won't activate until you restart the browser.In total, this update to Chrome 103.0.5060.134 fixes 11 security issues.
where attackers are known to be already exploiting them in the wild. It would also appear that there are no security fixes in the Android Chrome update announced at the same time.Five of the six vulnerabilities are rated as high impact, with the sixth being a low impact issue. In total, $33,500 in bug bounties was awarded to the researchers who disclosed the vulnerabilities. Some $23,000 of this went to just two researchers, one of which, surprisingly, was for that low-impact vulnerability.
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