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Urgent warning for Google Chrome users after a cyber attack has hit the browser with fake error messages. Here’s how to protect yourself

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Hackers have a new tactic to sneak malware onto your computer: fake updates for Google's Chrome browser, as well as Microsoft's Word and OneDrive products

Security experts have warned Google Chrome users after discovering a cyberattack targeting the browserlike Microsoft‘s Word and OneDrive apps. The attack used fake error messages to trick users into installing the malicious software themselves as a ‘solution’. Hackers send notifications via email and pop-ups on websites, claiming that the user has encountered a software glitch … Read more

Deadline for Google Chrome: 72 hours to update or uninstall your browser

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Users now have less than 72 hours to update or quit Chrome dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Updated June 3 after warnings about cookie theft. For Google Chrome and its more than two billion desktop users, May will go down in history as a month to forget: four zero-days and emergency update alerts in ten … Read more