Govt warns of Chrome bug that can let hackers steal Government Issues Critical Warning to Chrome

Indian government's cyber security wing, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued a visory to all Google Chrome users in country warning m about a critical vulnerability that can le malicious hackers to gain access to users PCs and even access ir personal data.

In its visory, CERT-In wrote that multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Google's Chrome web browser, which could be exploited by a hacker to gain vanced privileges on targeted user's PC, bypass security controls and gain access to sensitive information. In dition to this, se vulnerabilities could also let hackers to remotely execute a malicious code on a targeted PC and even performa a Denial of Service or DoS attack.

For unversed, a Denial of Service attack is a of cyber attack wherein hackers aim to make targeted system unavailable to intended users by downgring its performance or making it completely inaccessible.

In total, CERT-In has highlighted a total of eight bugs ranging between low and high severity rating that can be used by hackers to ir vantage. "Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Google Chrome due to inappropriate implementation in Blink, Autofill, Views, Paint, FileSystem, use after free in Media, Accessibility, and insufficient policy enforcement in Navigation. A remote attacker could exploit se vulnerabilities by executive a specially crafted webpage," CERT-In wrote in its visory.

"Successful exploitation of se vulnerabilities could allow remote attacker to gain escalated privileges, bypass security control, gain access to sensitive information, conduct remote code execution or perform denial of service (DoS) condition on target system," organisation ded.

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