Google Issues Emergency Chrome Update for Zero-Day Flaw Exploited in Attacks

Google Issues Emergency Chrome Update for Zero-Day Flaw Exploited in Attacks

Google has released an emergency security update for Chrome after confirming that a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in the browser’s V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine is being actively exploited. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-85046, could potentially expose users to browser crashes, data exposure or attacker-controlled code execution, depending on how it is exploited. The company has…