Google Issues Emergency Fix for Critical Chrome Vulnerability Affecting Billions of Users

Google has released an emergency update for Chrome to fix a zero-day vulnerability that can be exploited by a malicious webpage to run arbitrary code in the browser. The vulnerability is present in Chrome for desktop versions prior to 112.0.5615.121. Meanwhile, Western Digital is being extorted by miscreants who claim to have stolen around 10 terabytes of internal data from the company, including customer and employee information. In response, Google and other tech industry actors have announced a project to create a legal environment that's more favorable for good-faith security researchers, plus another to help fund legal representation for researchers caught in a lawsuit.