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Google issues urgent warning to millions of Chrome browser users

Google has issued an urgent security warning to anyone who uses Chrome to browse the internet.

The tech giants have issued an urgent update to plug a previously undiscovered security flaw in the software. If users don't update then they will be putting themselves at risk of an attack from hackers.

The security flaw, which has been classed as ‘high-severity’, concerns a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine. This type of exploit could allow hackers access to an unprotected computer where they could do things like access protected memory, cause a crash or run malicious code, reported The Mirror.

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