Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), an agency that creates awareness about cyber security, has issued an important warning. This warning has been issued for desktop users of Google Chrome. In the latest note, it has been said that many vulnerabilities have been spotted in Google’s web browser, these are a special kind of weaknesses, which can be used by hackers and scammers.
With their help, cyber scammers can break into users’ systems and even steal sensitive data. Not only this, it can even take remote access to the device. They can break into the computer system only after it is shut down. Let us know about it in details.
CERT-In gave information
According to the details shared by CERT-In, this can prove to be a big threat to the users. With its help, cyber criminals can easily take remote access to users’ devices. After this, code or software etc. can be installed in the device.
According to the report, Google Chrome is facing two types of problems in its codebase. It has an Uninitialised Use and Insufficient data validation in dawn.
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How to keep yourself safe
It is very important to keep yourself safe from these dangers mentioned by CERT-In. For this you will have to update your device with the latest version of Google Chrome. Currently, the stable channel version for Windows and MacOS is 127.0.6533.88/89, while version 127.0.6533.88 is available for Linux. Necessary action was taken and these weaknesses have been removed.
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To update Google Chrome, it is necessary that users have to go inside the menu of the browser, after that select Help. After this, you will have to go to About Google Chrome, after this it will automatically check for updates and if the update is available, it will automatically start working with it.