Google Chrome hit by another serious security flaw - update your browser ASAP

Google has patched yet another critical security bug in Chrome, which means all of you who use the browser should update it ASAP. On Monday, the company revealed a high-severity vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to run malicious code on your system. In its release notes for the latest version of Chrome, Google pointed to the security flaw tagged as CVE-2025-6554. The NIST page on this one describes it as: "Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 138.0.7204.96 allowed a remote attacker to perform arbitrary read/write via a crafted HTML page." Also: This Google Chrome update could change the fundamentals of browsing - here's who gets to try it first V8 is an open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine that Google uses in Chrome. Here, a programming problem in the code could give a remote attacker the means to create a malicious web page designed to steal data, install malware, or take over your system. The vulnerability has already been exploited in the wild, which means the bad guys are onto it and have used it to target unsuspecting Chrome users. This particular bug was discovered by Clément Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group on June 25. To assist with its bug-hunting efforts, Google's researchers typically turn to such tools as AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, Control Flow Integrity, libFuzzer, and AFL. Thankfully, Google has rolled out a fix for this flaw with the latest versions of the browser, specifically versi...