Update Chrome ASAP - attackers are already exploiting this nasty zero-day flaw

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Another day, another zero-day, at least for Google Chrome. In an advisory released Monday, Google warned of a dangerous new security vulnerability affecting its popular browser. Fortunately, the latest update squashes the bug. Here are the details. Rated as a high security flaw, the zero day labeled CVE-2025-13223 is described as: "Type Confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 142.0.7444.175 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page." Also: I used this free tool to see what data the internet has on me - and the results were disturbing In plain English, Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine fails to correctly treat a specific type of data, leading to memory corruption. An attacker could exploit that weakness through a web page designed to run malicious code or otherwise wreak havoc with the browser. In its advisory, Google revealed that an exploit for the flaw exists in the wild. That means attackers were aware of the vulnerability and already tried to take advantage of it to prey on potential victims. Zero-day flaws are particularly serious as they represent an open invitation to hackers. They're known as zero days because the vendor doesn't know about them (e.g., knows about them for zero days). As such, no patch exists, allowing attackers to easily exploit them. Also: AI's scary new trick: Conducting cyberattacks instead of just helping out This latest flaw was discovered on Nov. 1...