Chrome

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2025
Chrome extension “Safery” steals Ethereum wallet seed phrases

Malicious Chrome extension “Safery: Ethereum Wallet” steals users’ seed phrases while posing as a legit crypto wallet still available online. Socket’s Threat Research Team discovered a malicious Chrome extension called “Safery: Ethereum Wallet,” posing as a legitimate crypto wallet but designed to steal users’ seed phrases. The Chrome extension was uploaded to the Chrome Web […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2025
Chrome 142 Released: Two high-severity V8 flaws fixed, $100K in rewards paid

Google released Chrome 142, fixing 20 flaws, including two high-severity V8 bugs, and awarded $100,000 in bug bounties. Google addressed 20 flaws in Chrome version 142, including high-severity bugs that impact the V8 engine. The IT giant awarded $100,000 in bounties for two issues in the V8 JavaScript engine. The two vulnerabilities are tracked as […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2025
Brush exploit can cause any Chromium browser to collapse in 15-60 seconds

“Brash” flaw in Chromium’s Blink engine lets attackers crash browsers instantly via a single malicious URL, researcher Jose Pino revealed. Security researcher Jose Pino found a severe vulnerability, named Brash, in Chromium’s Blink rendering engine that can be exploited to crash many Chromium-based browsers within a few seconds. “Brash is a critical vulnerability in Blink, the rendering engine that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2025
CVE-2025-10585 is the sixth actively exploited Chrome zero-day patched by Google in 2025

Google addressed four vulnerabilities affecting its Chrome web browser, including one that has been exploited in the wild. Google released security updates to address four vulnerabilities in the Chrome web browser, including CVE-2025-10585, which has reportedly been exploited in the wild. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2025-10585 exists in the wild.” reads the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2025
Google fixes critical Chrome flaw, researcher earns $43K

Google addressed a critical use-after-free vulnerability in its Chrome browser that could potentially lead to code execution. A researcher earned $43000 from Google for reporting a critical Chrome vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-10200, in the Serviceworker component. A use-after-free (UAF) occurs when a program accesses memory after it has been freed. This can cause crashes, data […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2025
Google fixed Chrome flaw found by Big Sleep AI

Google Chrome 139 addressed a high-severity V8 flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-9132, found by Big Sleep AI Google Chrome 139 addressed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-9132, in its open source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine V8. The vulnerability is an out-of-bounds write issue in the V8 JavaScript engine that was discovered by Big Sleep AI. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2025
Chrome sandbox escape nets security researcher $250,000 reward

Researcher earns Google Chrome ’s top $250K bounty for a sandbox escape vulnerability enabling remote code execution. A researcher who goes online with the moniker ‘Micky’ earned $250,000 from Google for reporting a high-severity Chrome vulnerability. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-4609, resides in the Mojo IPC system, an attacker can exploit the flaw to escape […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 16, 2025
CVE-2025-6554 marks the fifth actively exploited Chrome Zero-Day patched by Google in 2025

Google released security patches to address multiple Chrome vulnerabilities, including one flaw that has been exploited in the wild. Google released fixes for six Chrome flaws, including one actively exploited in the wild tracked as CVE-2025-6558 (CVSS score of 8.8). CVE-2025-6558 stems from improper validation of untrusted input in Chrome’s ANGLE and GPU components. Clément […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2025
U.S. CISA adds Google Chromium V8 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Chromium V8 vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Chromium V8 vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6554, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Last week, Google released security patches to address the Chrome vulnerability CVE-2025-6554 for which an exploit is […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2025
CVE-2025-6554 is the fourth Chrome zero-day patched by Google in 2025

Google released security patches to address a Chrome vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6554, for which an exploit exists in the wild. Google released security patches to address a Chrome vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6554, for which an exploit is available in the wild. “Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 138.0.7204.96 allowed a remote attacker […]