New Delhi, June 10 -- version 149.0.7827.103, a fix for 74 security vulnerabilities. Most users who clicked "Relaunch" never knew one of those vulnerabilities was already being used against them.

The flaw at the center of the emergency is CVE-2026-11645, a high-severity out-of-bounds memory access error in V8, the JavaScript and WebAssembly engine that sits at Chrome's computational core. Google confirmed in its June 8 Stable Channel release notice that an exploit for this vulnerability exists and has been used in the wild. The company stopped there. No details about who was targeted, no information about how attackers delivered the malicious page that triggered it, no indication of how many users were compromised before the patch arrive...