Update your Google Chrome now to be protected from an active social engineering attack being employed by hackers in North Korea.
Google has begun pushing out an update to its Chrome browser to patch a zero-day vulnerability that is potentially being exploited by hackers in North Korea. If you use Chrome—and many people do, as it wields the largest market share of all browsers—you should apply the update at your earliest convenience (and right now, if possible). The update shifts Chrome to version 88.0.4324.150 and is available for builds on Windows, Mac, and Linux. At the moment, Google is restricting access to finer grain details about the zero-day vulnerability “until a majority of users are updated with a fix.” However, it has been assigned CVE-2021-21148 with a High security rating. According to what few details are available, this security flaw can result in a “heap buffer overflow in V8,” which is Google’s open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine.
