Billions Of Chrome Users Urged To Update Now Over $1K 0-Day Flaw
Google has issued an emergency security update for desktop Chrome users across Windows, Mac, and Linux to address a dozen high- and medium-severity vulnerabilities. One of them is a zero-day flaw that Google confirms is being actively exploited in the wild (again).
Tracked as CVE-2026-85046, Google lists the zero-day as a Type confusion in Chrome's V8 engine. This is when the browser engine misinterprets the data type of a variable or object in memory.
In simple terms, JavaScript engines like V8 assign memory to store different kinds of data, such as an integer, a string, or a complex program object. A type confusion bug occurs when the engine gets tricked into treating one type of memory object as if it were a completely different type.
When that happens, a malicious script can read or write outside its intended memory boundary. Attackers exploit this confusion to bypass Chrome's security...
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