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This Google Chrome security flaw could affect billions of users – TechRadar


Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers (opens in new tab) have been found carrying a high-severity vulnerability that allowed threat actors to steal people’s sensitive files, including the contents of their cryptocurrency wallets, and login credentials.

Cybersecurity experts from Imperva found that the way Chrome and Chromium-based browsers (used by some 2.5 billion people) interacted with file systems was flawed. More precisely, the way browsers process symlinks.



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