

We blocked North Korea's Chrome exploit, says Google.Like Google, Microsoft noted an exploit was in the wild and remained tight lipped about further details. Google says Chrome has about 2.6 billion users, and Edge is separately said to have about 160 million. It's not just Chrome and Edge relying on Google's Chromium project: several other products also use its V8 JavaScript engine, so look out for any security updates for these, if necessary. "We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven't yet fixed," Google added. The web goliath noted it would restrict access to bug details until "a majority" of its users patched the flaw. Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-1096 exists in the wild.
