Google has joined the list of vendors coping with zero-day attacks by releasing a significant update to Chrome Desktop to address a security flaw that has already been publicly exploited.
The high-severity flaw, identified as CVE-2023-2033, is characterized as a type confusion in the JavaScript engine of Chrome V8. In a brief advisory, Google stated that it was “aware that an exploit for CVE-2023-2033 exists in the wild.” Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group is credited with discovering the problem.
The business gave no additional information about the bug, its in-the-wild exploitation, indicators of compromise (IOCs), or any instructions regarding the characteristics of machines that were being targeted.
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