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Google Chrome users are currently at risk of new high-level hacks, as the search engine giant confirmed. Because of this, the tech developer issued a warning to a total of 2.65 billion consumers across the globe, saying that they discovered new malicious campaigns in the browser.

This is the third time that Google has issued a high alert level warning for its Chrome users. The company also published a new blog post that to specify the high-level and medium-level vulnerabilities.

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The giant tech firm confirmed a total of five severe flaws in its popular Chrome browser:

According to Google's official blog post, the company's security team discovered a total of five high-level browser flaws, eight medium-level vulnerabilities, as well as two low-level issues.

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On the other hand,Forbesreported that Chrome was also affected by UAF (Use-After-Free) exploits more than ten times back in September. Aside from this, Google also suffered from a zero-day UAF exploit during that period.

Google is just one of the companies that are currently targeted by cybercriminals. Recently, it was reported thatTwitch hackerstargeted the popular streaming platform for hours.

On the other hand, anSMS routing companywas also hacked. Experts said that the malicious campaign against Syniverse lasted for five years.

Since Chrome users are facing severe browser flaws, Google decided to release a critical update. The new Chrome version 95.0.4638.54 is expected to prevent and fix the mentioned vulnerabilities in the company's popular browser service.

To check the update, you need to visit your Chrome's Settings. After that, go to the Help section and choose the "About Google Chrome" option. More details will be provided once you are there.

For more news updates about Google Chrome and other popular browsing services, always keep your tabs open here at TechTimes.

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