Google released one emergency security update to fix a 0day in the program tours Chrome. The security flaw, rated very high severity, was reported to the company on March 23, 2022. Google said it is already aware of attacks using the vulnerability. The company did not provide further details on the scope of the attacks or the hackers' targets.
Microsoft also released one information security patch for the Edge browser that fixes the same issue. Edge, like Chrome, supports automatic updates, but they are not installed in real time on devices. So if you use Edge check for updates manually to install the security update as early as possible.
Ανοίξτε το πρόγραμμα περιήγησης Edge και επιλέξτε Μενού > Βοήθεια και Σχόλια > Σχετικά με τον Microsoft Edge ή ανοίξτε την εσωτερική διεύθυνση edge://settings/help απευθείας από την γραμμή διευθύνσεων.
Η new edition of Edge is 99.0.1150.55 and will need a re-installmovement to complete the process. The update is available for all desktop operating systems supported by Edge.
Microsoft is monitoring the security gap in CVE-2022-1096, but does not provide additional information.
Microsoft Edge browser is known to be based on Chromium, the same core used by Google's Chrome browser. So most security holes that affect Google Chrome also affect other Chromium-based browsers, such as Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Brave or Opera.
