Published 17:32 IST, February 26th 2020

Google Chrome hit with critical bug, update now and ensure data safety. Details here

Recently, the zero day vulnerability hit Google Chrome for the third time, for which Google has developed and released a patch in the latest update. UPDATE NOW!

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Google Chrome has been one of most reliable browsers for users across globe for surfing internet. However, according to latest media reports, a critical vulnerability has been found in Google Chrome, but it has been patched in latest Google Chrome update. If you are a Google Chrome user, you must download and install latest Google Chrome update right away. Here is why Google Chrome download is so urgent and essential for safety of your data:

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Google Chrome zero day vulnerability hits again

urgency to update web browser has risen due to existence of third Google Chrome zero day vulnerability in wild, which has been patched by latest Google Chrome update. It has only been two months since beginning of 2020, and Google Chrome is susceptible to zero day vulnerability for third time around. Even though vulnerability has been tracked down by Chrome development and patched with latest Google Chrome download, re is a possibility that hackers might have already exploited it before Google did patchwork.

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In release tes of latest Google Chrome update, Google said that y would reserve access to bug details and links until a majority of users are updated through Google Chrome download. y also mentioned that y would retain access if bug exists in any third-party libraries which or projects depend on, but have t received fix yet. Going by what Google has stated in release tes, this Google Chrome zero day vulnerability seems to be a severe bug that went unticed and could lead to some significant hacking on affected systems.

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What is Google Chrome zero day vulnerability?

Google Chrome zero day vulnerability is a Type confusion (is a type of bug for web browser) vulnerability that exploits JavaScript and can be used to cause errors deliberately in web browser. Through Google Chrome zero day, vulnerability hackers can run unrestricted code on computing device. Type confusion exploit can be deployed and run remotely on or systems by hackers without users kwing about it.

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How to download latest Google Chrome update?

For updating your Chrome to latest version, visit Google Chrome download p and install latest update manually. You can even go to About Google Chrome option by opening Google Chrome and n allow latest Google Chrome update to download and install on your device. Since this is third time that Google Chrome zero day vulnerability has hit web browser, you must leave all or work and update your browser to latest version on priority.

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17:32 IST, February 26th 2020